Common name:Red Flowering Currant
Botanical name:Ribes sanguineum
Upright, multibranched deciduous shrub with medium green maple shaped leaves. The rose-red flowers appear in clusters in mid-winter offering winter color for the garden, and food for hummingbirds. Can tolerate some shade on the coast, and needs shade in
Common name:Purple Leaf Loropetalum
Botanical name:Loropetalum chinese purple cvs.
Red Fringe Flower is a 6-12' shrub with arching branches and light green and reddish leaves .
Common name:Winter Daphne
Botanical name:Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata'
This shrub will reach about 6' tall and has small, glossy, greenish white leaves with pink flowers that bloom in winter and spring.
Designer: Michelle Dervis
Photographer: Michelle Dervis
Maintain a two to four inch layer of mulch on the soil surface to reduce weeds, infiltrate rain water, and reduce compaction.
Mulching around plants helps retain water and improves the soil.
Remove irrigation water and fertilizer from areas where you don't want weeds to grow.
