Common name:Chanticleer Callery Pear
Botanical name:Pyrus calleryana 'Chanticleer'
This dependable tree quickly reaches 25'-30' high and 15' wide. It has an upright pyramidal form. Oval, glossy green leaves turn reddish bronze in fall. White flowers bloom in spring, densely covering the tree. 'Chanticleer' shows changes in the 4 seasons. It is drought tolerant once it's established. It's a great urban tree as it tolerates air pollution.
Common name:Otto Quast Spanish Lavender
Botanical name:Lavandula stoechas 'Otto Quast'
This round shrub will grow to about 3' high and has small, gray green leaves with purple flowers that bloom in summer. It is more prostrate than its parent Lavandula stoechas. The flowers resemble a purple pineapple! 'Otto Quast' is drought tolerant once it is established and cold tolerant to 5 degrees F.
Common name:Italian Cypress
Botanical name:Cupressus sempervirens
This narrow tree will grow to about 25' tall and has small, green, scaled leaves.
Common name:Silky Leaf Woodwaxen
Botanical name:Genista pilosa
This broom is less invasive than its cousins. It is a prostrate shrub/groundcover growing not much beyond a foot in height. It has magnificient yellow blooms in spring.
Designer: Galbraith & Associates
Photographer: Lara McCormick
Practice grass-cycling by leaving short grass clippings on lawns after mowing, so that nutrients and organic matter are returned to the soil.
Attract, or buy beneficial insects such as ladybugs and lacewings to control pest outbreaks in your garden.