Matching Native Plants To Your Garden

Sidney Golden Wattle

Acacia longifolia (uh-KAY-shuh  lon-ji-FOLE-ee-uh)

Sidney Golden Wattle

DROUGHT :  ✺✺✺ RECOMMENDATION :   ★★ HEIGHT:     15' - 20' SPREAD:    15' - 20' FORM:    Obovoid GROWTH RATE:  Rapid CHARACTER:  Evergreen, Woody

LEAF:  Color  Green, phyllodes Texture  Medium  Density  Medium Fall Color  None FLOWER:  Color   Yellow Time  Spring

FRUIT:  Color  Brown, pod      Time  Summer

LANDSCAPE VALUE:       Accent  X     Background  X      Barrier        Border  X      Bonsai        Climber         Container  X     Erosion Control  X     Espalier        Fall Color         Fire Retardant        Foreground        Foundation         Flowers  X     Fruit        Ground Cover         Hedges  X      Lawn Substitute      Lawn Tree        Low Maintenance         Mass  X      Multi-Trunk  X       Poolside         Rockery         Rapid Growth  X Screen  X     Shade        Standard        Street Tree        Topiary        Tropical Effect        Xeriscape X       Windbreak  X     Other  Slope

ENVIRONMENT:  Sun   X    1/2 Shade         Shade        Wind  X     Heat  X      Dust  X     Aridity             Moisture      Humidity        Smog  X     Saline       Alkaline Soil   X    Coastal        Other

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Temperature Tolerance    16    F

CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS :   No special requirements.

PESTS AND DISEASES:  scale, twig borers, psyllid, whitefly, mealybug

REMARKS:   A good soil binder in sand and slopes.  Generally pruned and grown as a shrub.  Most  Acacias are not  cold hardy enough to survive in the Antelope Valley.   Acacias  do not have true leaves, but flattened leaf stems called phyllodes.

Glossy Abelia

Abelia X grandiflora
(a-BEEL-yuh gran-di-FLOR-uh)
Glossy Abelia
DROUGHT : ✺✺✺

RECOMMENDATION: ★★★★
HEIGHT: 3' - 8'

SPREAD: 4' - 8'
FORM: Mound
GROWTH RATE: Rapid
CHARACTER: Half Deciduous, Woody
LEAF: Color Glossy Dark Green
Texture Medium Density Medium
Fall Color Red Tinge
FLOWER: Color White to Pink
Time Spring - Fall
FRUIT: Color Insignificant
Time Summer - Fall

LANDSCAPE VALUE: Accent X Background Barrier Border X Bonsai Climber
Container Erosion Control X Espalier Fall Color Fire Retardant Foreground X
Foundation X Flowers X Fruit Ground Cover Hedges X Lawn Substitute Lawn Tree
Low Maintenance Mass X Multi-Trunk Poolside Rockery X Rapid Growth
Screen Shade Standard Street Tree Topiary Tropical Effect Xeriscape X
Windbreak Other Foliage
ENVIRONMENT: Sun X 1/2 Shade X Shade Wind Heat Dust Aridity X
Moisture X Humidity X Smog Saline Alkaline Soil Coastal Other
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Temperature Tolerance 0 F
CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: Cut off long growth at base of plant.
PESTS AND DISEASES: scale, whitefly
REMARKS: Not tolerant of reflective heat or wind.

Flowering Maple

Abutilon hybrida
(uh-BUE-ti-lon HYB-ri-dum)
Flowering Maple
DROUGHT : ✺✺✺
RECOMMENDATION: ★★
HEIGHT: 8' - 10'
SPREAD: 8' - 10'
FORM: Mound; Obovate
GROWTH RATE: Rapid
CHARACTER: Deciduous, Woody
LEAF: Color Green
Texture Coarse Density Medium
Fall Color Insignificant
FLOWER: Color yellow, red, orange, white
Time Spring - summer
FRUIT: Color
Time
LANDSCAPE VALUE: Accent X Background X Barrier Border Bonsai Climber
Container X Erosion Control Espalier Fall Color Fire Retardant Foreground
Foundation X Flowers X Fruit Ground Cover Hedges Lawn Substitute Lawn Tree
Low Maintenance Mass X Multi-Trunk Poolside Rockery X Rapid Growth
Screen Shade Standard Street Tree Topiary Tropical Effect X Xeriscape
Windbreak Other
ENVIRONMENT: Sun 1/2 Shade X Shade Wind Heat X Dust Aridity
Moisture X Humidity Smog Saline Alkaline Soil Coastal X Other
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Temperature Tolerance 25 F
CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS: No special requirements.
PESTS AND DISEASES: scale, whitefly, caterpillars, crown rot, root rot
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