At Gachina Landscape Management, protecting pollinators has been a reality for over 10 years, when the Company started to offer to its clients a 100% organic landscape maintenance service. For clients open to this option
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Plant of the week 5.9 – 5.13 ~ New Zealand Flax/Phormium ~ Phormium is an evergreen shrub with low to medium water requirements and thrives in full sun. Phormium has showy flower spikes in the summer. Natural prunin
Plant of the week 5.2 – 5.6 ~ Star Jasmine/Trachelospermum jasminoides ~ Star Jasmine is an evergreen ground cover/vine with medium water requirements and thrives in full sun to part shade. Jasmine has white, fragrant
Plant of the week 4.25 – 4.29 ~ Fire Thorne / Pyracanthus ~ Pyracanthus is an evergreen shrub with medium to low water requirements and thrives in full sun. Varieties range in size from 6” high ground covers to 15
Plant of the week 4.18 – 4.22 ~ California Lilac / Ceanothus ~ Ceanothus is an evergreen shrub with low water requirements and thrives in full sun to partial shade. Ceanothus has an abundance of small blue / purple
Plant of the week 4.11 – 4.15 ~ Rosemary / Rosmarinus officinalis ~ Rosemary is a Mediterranean evergreen shrub with low water requirements and thrives in full sun. Rosemary has an abundance of small blue flowers in
Plant of the week 4.4 – 4.8 ~ Juncus ~ Juncus is an evergreen monocotyledonous (which include grasses) with low water requirements which thrives in full sun to partial shade. Many varieties will thrive in wet o
Plant of the week 3.28 – 4.1 ~ Xylsoma ~ Xylsoma is an evergreen shrub with low water requirements which thrives in full sun to partial shade. Xylsoma is hard pruned in winter months to encourage new growth, maintai
Plant of the Week! ❄️
Hetereomeles Arbutifolia - ‘Toyon’
💦 low to medium watering
☀️ Full Sun to Partial Shade
🤩Characteristics:
•Evergreen shrub or tree 6’-10’ in height and 6’-8’ feet in width. CALIFORNIA NATIVE!
•White flowers emerge in Spring, red berries emerge in the Fall
•Attracts native pollinators and birds
•Fire retardant
🤢Susceptible to:
•Bacterial Leaf Spot & Scales
❤️Care:
•Prune it naturally, reduce size or prune after flowering
•Fertilize with multipurpose, slow-release fertilizer in the spring
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