Grand Park Landscaping Photos
Shrub Selection
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Reality Check
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Function
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Barrier
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Fill
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Diversion
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Loiter Prevention
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Erosion Control
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Edge Softening
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Utility Hiding
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Neighbor Hiding
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Water Use
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Know your landscapes hydrozones.
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Water saving vs. fire resistant
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Drainage needs
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pH needs
○ Function
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Temperature requirements
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Deciduous?
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Growth Habit & Size
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Know ultimate height and width
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Root “invasiveness”
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Density
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Axillary growth potential
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Texture
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Hard to smooth
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Spikey to soft
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Color
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Hot to Cool
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Color can move you (literally)
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Flowers & Mess
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Flower color (see above)
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Flower size
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Bloom period
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Flower “mess”
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Container Size
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Large vs. Small
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Planting
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Staking
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Proper staking
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Pruning
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Look up each plant
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Some plants can take a shear
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Other need to have their growing
tips pinched
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Pines and candles
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Irrigating
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In general ½ or less of the ET
index.
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Planting for fire areas.
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Some selected shrubs
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Juniper
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Podocarpus
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Syzygium
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Ficus?
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Raphiolepis
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Box hedge
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Hopseed Bushes
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Dwarf myrtle
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Pittosporums
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Xylosma
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Abelia
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Ligustrum
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Nandina
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Melaleuca (was Callistemon)
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Dwarf Abelia
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Westringia
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Agapanthus
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Morea and Dietes
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Plumbago
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Berberis 'Ken Hartman' Hybrid
(Oregon Grape)
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Ceanothus 'Joyce Coulter' (Joyce
Coulter Ceanothus)
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Heteromeles arbutifolia (Toyon)
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Mahonia pinnata (California
Barberry)
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Rhamnus californica (California
Coffeeberry)
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Others
