Ceaonothus, also know as California Lilac, is a beauty year round with deep green oval leaves about one inch long, dense, shearable growth.

This old garden standard is a real treasure and very popular.

All the wild grasses are waving in the breeze, dotted with daisies and other wild flowers.

Red alder is a common West Coast native tree often seen along stream banks and wet swales and in disturbed areas like clear cuts or road edges.