The Protea family includes many beautiful plants that are great as specimens in a coastally influenced garden. The five main members include Protea, Leucospermum, Leucadendron, Grevillea, and Banksia....

Lomandra has become a very popular landscape plant due to it’s grass-like appearance and low maintenance requirements. While they do not require annual pruning like grasses, they do benefit from a hard...

Chondropetalum (Cape Rush) is a great accent plant that provides year-round structure in the garden. Unfortunately, they are often mistakenly treated like a grass and chopped down, requiring a very slow...

Ceanothus is a great California native for water conscious gardens and many of us already have established plants in our yards! A fun fact we would like to share about Ceanothus is that you can actually...

Watch and learn as Jeff and Alexa of Sierra Azul Nursery & Garden demonstrate and talk you through how to prune Salvias for Spring growth and Summer blooms. https://youtu.be/dWKIflhhTyU

While working at the Sierra Azul Garden and Nursery, a comment often heard from customers and visitors is, "We'd like to take one or more of these beautiful mounds and move them over to our property."...

With silky flowers that ripple in the slightest breeze, or soft billowy mounds that provide cover for birds, ornamental grasses can bring fine or bold texture and a sense of motion to any garden. Grown...

Where winters are cold and snowy it is expected that most plants will lose their leaves during the winter. However in coastal California we expect plants to be green and showy all year long. Indeed, in...