| To distinguish a blue blossom ceanothus from a musk bush, for example, look for ridges on the plants' stems. |
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| It's a good time to thin out weak branches of ceanothus and to shorten remaining growths. |
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| To provide soil with nitrogen, try ceanothus, clover, legumes, lupine, and sea buckthorn. |
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| Hey, cyan is a blue hue, and ceanothus has beautiful blue flowers, so it makes sense. |
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| Take heel cuttings from ceanothus, penstemons, lavenders, santolinas and philadelphus. |
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| Drought-tolerant shrubs range from manzanita, cotoneaster and rockrose to toyon, huckleberry and other varieties of ceanothus. |
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| Plants chosen for drought tolerance as well as color thrive here, including catmint, ceanothus, lychnis, penstemon, purple coneflower, rockrose, rosemary, and star jasmine. |
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| Kuhlmann used lots of California natives, including wild buckwheat, ceanothus, coffeeberry, manzanita, and salvias. |
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| Prune late-spring and early summer-flowering shrubs such as philadelphus, weigela, ceanothus, escallonia and kerria immediately after flowering. |
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| Cytisus and privet are targeted by red admirals, while ribes, ceanothus, honeysuckle and sorbus may lure speckled woods. |
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| Prune late spring and early summer flowering shrubs like philadelphus, ceanothus, escallonia and weigela immediately after flowering. |
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| Associated thickets of true mountain mahogany, serviceberry, and snowbrush ceanothus are widely scattered. |
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| As you get closer to the coast, ceanothus tends to get shrubbier until it nearly flattens out in ground-cover form. |
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| Leaning against the table are waist-high burlap sacks containing sagebrush, ceanothus, and bitterbrush seeds. |
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| Plants such as native salvia, native golden currants, penstemon, ceanothus, California fuchsia and Oregon grapes are magnets for hummingbirds, she says. |
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| Native plants Most chapters of the California Native Plant Society have sales this month, prime time for planting natives such as ceanothus and Matilija poppy. |
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| Take a wander through some of our local nurseries to find California bloomers in ceanothus, the Matilija poppy, Banksia rose, salvias or native penstemmons. |
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| On walls, you should plant nectar-rich honeysuckle, wisteria and Ceanothus. |
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| A Summer is the time to take semi-ripe cuttings from shrubs such as Ceanothus, Cistus, Escallonia, Hebes, Lavender, Philedelphus and Potentilla. |
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| Buddleia, Ceanothus, Cotoneaster, Hosta, Holly, Lavetera, Honeysuckle, Daffodils, Philadelphus, Potentilla, Rhododendron, Skimmia, Spiraea, Viburnum. |
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