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Vanilla Strawberry™ Hydrangea

Hydrangea paniculata Vanilla Strawberry on low water in Davis in July 2019. Photo: SK Reid. Vanilla Strawberry gets its name from its blooms starting out white and fading to light pink, eventually turning deep pink with a sepia tinge.
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'Marvel' Mahonia

Mahonia Marvel on low water in 50% shade in May in Davis. Photo: SK Reid. Mahonia Marvel is a shrub composed of layers of stiff green leaves with a prickle at each tip. These are arranged along upright, unbranching stems.
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Autumn Bonfire™ Encore® Azalea

Autumn Bonfire azalea in full bloom in April in Davis. Photo: K Reid Autumn Bonfire is a dwarf azalea with vivid red flowers, whose buds garnet buds stand out against the green foliage.
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Blonde Ambition Blue Gramma Grass

Bouteloua gracilis Blonde Ambition on 20% ETo in April 2016. Photo: SK Reid. This lovely cultivar of blue grama grass showed no significant differences in relative growth or quality between treatments (Table 4).
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Coolvista™ Dianella

Coolvista Dianella, May 2019. Photo: SK Reid. Coolvista is a short, grass-like plant with blue green leaves in the Asphodelaceae. Among open house attendees, Coolvista was more popular in Southern California than at UC Davis (Tables 7b and 7d).
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Pacific Horticulture: The Quest for the Best Pacific Horticulture: Best Plants Named in Low-Water Field Trials...
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Serpentine Columbine

Columbine in late June. Photo: SK Reid. This evergreen or almost evergreen perennial is a native endemic to California woodland, chaparral, and riparian habitats along the western edge of the state.
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Blue Gramma Grass

Bouteloua gracilis 80% of ETo at midsummer. Photo: SK Reid. Commonly called blue grama grass or eyelash grass, Bouteloua gracilis is a long-lived prairie grass native to North America. This tidy bunching grass puts up attractive long spikes with seedheads almost at a 90 angle to the stem.
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San Diego Sedge

San Diego sedge in bloom. Photo: SK Reid. San Diego sedge is a stiffly upright evergreen plant with bluish green leaves that showed exceptional toughness and drought tolerance for a riparian species.
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Valley Violet California Lilac

California lilac Valley Violet in full bloom. Photo: L.R. Oki. Valley Violet California lilac is a low-growing evergreen shrub with long arching branches arising from the center; these are smothered in deep lavender flowers from base to tip in very early spring.
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