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Buddleia Pugster Blue on Low Water, June 2020. Photo K. Reid Pugster Blue is a medium-sized, symmetrical, compact form of butterfly bush whose green leaves have grey-green undersides.
Sky Pointer holly began declining in health and appearance at Davis during the establishment year and by spring of the second year there were not enough plants to collect data.
Eremophila 'Grey Horizon' on Low water in Davis, July 2020. Photo: K Reid Grey Horizon is a low-growing, prostrate groundcover from Australia with silver-grey leaves. Tubular orange flowers with prominent stamens are not very showy as they appear nestled in or below the foliage.
Hamelia patens Sierra Red close up Oct 2020 at SCREC. Photo: D Martinez Sierra Red is a cultivar of Hamelia patens, a shrub native to subtropical and tropical parts of Florida, Mexico, Central and South America.
Hesperaloe 'Sandia Glow' in Davis in July 2020. Photo: K Reid Sandia Glow is a slightly smaller, more compact version of the species red yucca with long, narrow, slightly folded leaves and watermelon red blooms on long stalks that begin appearing in April or earlier in Irvine and in May in Davis.
Hypericum Sunny Boulevard June 2020 in full bloom in Davis. Photo: K Reid Sunny Boulevard forms a tidy little mounded deciduous shrub with small, bright green, strap-shaped leaves that emerged in early May.
Juke Box at UC Davis in late April 2020. Juke Box, an intergeneric hybrid of Pyracantha and Osteomeles, is a small, mounding evergreen shrub with shiny green leaves.
Rhaphiolepis Oriental Pear in Davis in April, 2020. Photo: J Sisneroz Oriental Pearl is a dense compact form of this species with deep green, ovate leaves typical of this shrub.
Rhagodia 'Aussie Flat Bush' on low water in Davis in July 2020. Photo: K Reid Aussie Flat Bush is a compact, low-growing shrub or tall groundcover with arrow- shaped, bluish grey-green leaves.
Ruschia 'Nana' in Davis in April 2020 before treatments began. Photo: K Reid Ruschia is a genus native to the drier regions of southern Africa. This species and cultivar, commonly called Dwarf Carpet of Stars, is a very low-growing succulent groundcover with a tight growth habit.
