Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Sloat Garden Center on View from the Bay!

Tune in to View from the Bay on KGO 7 from 3-4pm on Wednesday, June 11th. Sloat Garden Center will offer tips for gardening with deer resistant, drought tolerant and edible plants. Here's what we'll be talking about...

Drought Tolerant
TREES
Chinese Pistache (Pistacia chinensis)
Fruitless Olive (Olea europa)

SHRUBS
Smoke Bush (Cotinus coggygria)
Grevillea spp.
Pineapple Guava (Feijoa sellowiana)
Honey Bush (Melianthus major)
Plumbago auriculata
Pittosporum spp.
Salvia Allen Chickering

PERENNIALS
Assorted succulents: Agave, Aloe, Aeonium, Sedum
Festuca
Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia)
Mexican Primrose (Oenothera)
Dragon Tree (Cordyline)
VINES
Bougainvillea
Wisteria

GROUNDCOVERS
Myoporum parvifolium


Deer Resistant
TREES
Chinese Pistache (Pistacia chinensis)
Magnolia grandiflora

SHRUBS
Breath of Heaven (Coleonema pulchrum ‘Sunset Gold’)
Dragon Tree (Cordyline)
Little Ollie Olive (dwarf Olea)
Fern Pine (Podocarpus gracillior)
Boxwood (Buxus sp.)
Angel Trumpet (Brugmansia)
Yucca

PERENNIALS
Artemesia
Foxglove (Digitalis)
Bearded Iris
Catmint (Nepeta spp.)
Spurge (Euphorbia spp)
Sedge (Carex spp.)
Blue Oat Grass (Helictotrichon)

VINES
Happy Wanderer (Hardenbergia)
Potato Vine (Solanum jasminoides)
Creeping Fig (Ficus pumila)

GROUND COVERS
Carpet Bugle (Ajuga reptans)
Vinca minor *
Myoporum parvifolium


Edible Landscaping
TREES
Fig
Persimmon, Pear Espallier

SHRUB
Blueberry
Citrus
Rosemary
Lavender

HERBACEOUS BORDER
Lemon Verbena
Basil
Peppers
Chives
Artichoke
Parsley
Sage
Assorted Lettuces
Nasturtium
Fava Beans

VINES
Grapes
Kiwi

GROUND COVERS
Thyme
Strawberry
Sweet Woodruff (Galium)

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