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Spanish Lavender
Incense Cedar
Japanese Camellia
Giant Chain Fern
Datura
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Spanish Lavender

Common name: Spanish Lavender
Botanical name: Lavandula stoechas

This dense shrub grows 2'-3' tall with blue gray foliage and deep purple flowers that have large showy bracts near the top of the spikes. It is drought tolerant .

Incense Cedar

Common name: Incense Cedar
Botanical name: Calocedrus decurrens

The Cedar is an attractive, stiff, narrow evergreen tree which has a columnar growing pattern and maintains a central leader. The foliage is aromatic, dark green and needle-like, while the coarse bark has an attractive cinnamon red-brown coloring. The cedar retains its color in winter and under good cultural conditons, will maintain its foliage to the ground. It grows slowly to about 30' tall and 8'-12' wide. Brown cones are on the tree most of the year, attracting birds for the seeds.

Japanese Camellia

Common name: Japanese Camellia
Botanical name: Camellia japonica

This beautiful evergreen shrub can reach 6-15' tall, depending on the variety. It is intended for growth in filtered sun to shade, with regular water and more in hot summer areas. They make excellent container plants. White, pink or red flowers bloom in winter. Camellia prefers well draining, acid soil. Mulch well to keep roots cool.

Giant Chain Fern

Common name: Giant Chain Fern
Botanical name: Woodwardia fimbriata

The Giant Chain Fern is a large fern that grows 4'-8' tall. It can tolerate full sun but does best in some shade. This fern is native to California and is drought tolerant. -Cornflower Farms

Datura

Common name: Datura
Botanical name: Brugmansia x candida

A tender, subtropical shrub that grows quickly to 10'-12' tall, the Angel's Trumpet shows huge, dull green leaves and enormous, pendant trumpet-shaped, cream to white colored flowers in summer and fall. It has a sweet, heavy fragrance at night. It should be grown in sun to part shade, with regular watering. It needs shade in desert areas. This plant is frost sensitive. Prune in spring. All parts of the plant are poisonous. Protect from wind.