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A few cool things about
the Inspiration Garden…
What is River-Friendly
Landscaping?
• Sheet mulching (such as newspaper or
cardboard) was used in parts of the garden
to help reduce weeds.
River-Friendly Landscaping is an
environmentally friendly way of gardening.
River-Friendly Landscaping practices are
designed to help you create a healthy,
beautiful, vibrant yard while conserving water,
reducing yard waste, and preventing pollution
of our air and local rivers. Below are the 7
Principles of River-Friendly Landscaping.
• Most of the plants in the garden need less
water than the typical yard.
• The decomposed granite under the shade
structure allows rain water to soak into the
ground which helps reduce runoff.
• The garden features 2 less thirsty
turf varieties that use less water and
maintenance than typical lawns.
Special thanks to the following agencies and organizations for their contributions and support for the
River-Friendly Inspiration Garden:
Carmel Brown
Jimmie Yee,
Sacramento County Supervisor, District 2
Donna Dean’s Family
Judy Waegell’s Family
UC Master Gardeners
Laguna Creek Watershed
Southgate Recreation and Park District
Sacramento County Regional Parks
Sacramento County,
Department of Transportation
Welcome to the
River-Friendly Landscaping
Inspiration
Garden
and, the following…
• Are you interested in becoming a
steward for this garden? Please
contact Jeanette Huddleston at
874-4711.
We invite you to take a self-guided tour of
the garden which is designed using droughttolerant plants, grasses, and trees in an
attractive landscape that demonstrates good
water management and conservation.
Learn about the
7 principles of
River-Friendly
Landscaping at
Learn more at…
riverfriendly.org
Use this plant legend to find all sorts
of beautiful plants and sustainable turf
that makes this garden come alive! To
identify a plant, look for the number and
corresponding name on the map.
Inspiration Garden Plants
7.Italian cypress • Cupressus sempirvirens
‘Swan’s Golden’
8.Valley oak • Quercus lobata
TREES
9.Locust • Robinia ambigua ‘Purple Robe’
1.River she-oak • Casuarina cunninghamiana 10.Bay laurel • Laurus nobilis
2.Australian willow • Geijera parviflora
11.Crape myrtle• Lagerstroemia indica
3.Juniper • Juniperus chinesis ‘Sky Rocket’
12.Strawberry tree• Arbutus unedo
4.Peppertree • Schinus molle
13.Japanese quince • Chaenomeles
5.Western redbud • Cercis occidentalis
14.Smoke tree • Cotinus coggygria
6.African sumac • Rhus lancea
15.Maidenhair • Ginkgo biloba ‘Fairmount’
16.Chitalpa • Chitalpa tashkentensis
Shrubs
25.Bronze Loquat • Eriobotrya deflexa
26.Spurge • Euphorbia c. ‘Rainbow’
17.Bluebell creeper • Sollya heterophyla
27.Daylily • Hemerocallis hybrids
18.Aucuba • Aucuba japonica
28.Variegated mock orange • Pittosporum
19.Grevillia • Grevillia ‘Noellii’
tobira ‘Creme de Menthe’
20.Flower Carpet rose • Rosa flower carpet
29.Barberry
• Berberis thunbergii ‘Purpurea’
21.Chinese juniper • Juniperus chinensis ‘Nicks
30.African
boxwood
• Myrsine africana
Compact’
31.Hybrid
tea
rose
•
Rosa
hybrid
22.Pineapple guava • Feijoa sellowiana
32.Compact
bush
germander
• Teucrium
23.Wintercreeper • Euonymus fortunei
fruticans
‘Compactum’
‘Emerald and Gold’
33.Sticky monkeyflower • Mimulus
24.Creeping oregon grape • Mahonia r.
aurantiacus
‘Compacta’
34.Bottlebrush • Callistemon
35.Red yucca • Hesperaloe parviflora
22
36.California lilac • Ceanothus
22
1
22
37.Bush anemone • Carpenteria californica
7
38.Mediterranean fan palm • Chamaerops
6
34
2
7
39.Woolly bluecurls • Trichostema lanatum
41
40.Flowering currant • Ribes sanguineum
permeable
7
34
‘Claremont’
patio
2
40 66 59
17
68
2
41.Cape
leadwort • Plumbago auriculata
66 59
33
42.Rock
rose • Cistus
79
3
10
79
43. Heavenly bamboo • Nandina
70
29 29
44. Fragrant olive • Osmanthus
4
69
75
45. Abelia • Abelia
33
69
76
33
10
31
29
46. Butterfly bush • Buddleia davidii
56
18
62
9
47. Manzanita • Arctostaphylos
32
38
48
70
48. Creeping Rosemary •
51
42
62
3
19
Rosmarinus O ‘Prostratum’
12
79 69
39
20
49. Mexican marigold • Tagetes L.
8
47
55
55
18
23 36
61
30
42
21
5
54
74
35
60 31
56
78
30
30
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52
61
37
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60
53
49
46
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77
30
21
Red fescue
22
55
30
60
20
‘Molate’
74
22
permeable w
alkway
12
64
57
29 60
23
Bent36
11
Red fescue
24 grass,
44
‘Molate’
29
16
23 24
15
Agrostis
28
51
53
47
55
43
57
pallens
29
27
55
71
23 24
14
43
60
11
43
27
26
54
13
26
45
47
53
25 26
57
31
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Groundcovers
50.Lavender cotton • Santolina
chamaecyparissus
51.Spring cinquefiol • Potentilla verna ‘Nana’
52.Beard tongue • Pennstemon pinifolius
53.Mexican evening primrose • Oenothera
‘Siskiyou’
54.Germander • Teucrium chamaedrys
‘Prostratum’
55.Lavender cotton • Santolina virens
56.Snow in summer • Ceratium tomentosum
57.Sedum • Sedum spectibile ‘Autumn Joy’
PERENNIALS
58.Blood flower • Asclepius tuberosa
59.Sneeze weed • Helenium bigelovii
60.Red hot poker • Kniphofia uvaria
61.Lavender • Lavandula
62.Pennyroyal • Monardella odor a tissima
63.Russian sage • Perovskia ‘blue spire’
64.Scott’s red sage • Salvia gregii ‘autumn
sage’
65.Mexican sage • Salvia luecantha
66.Bog sage • Salvia uliginosa
67.Purple sage • Salvia officinalis
‘purpurascens’
68.African iris • Dietes vegeta
69.Tall verbena • Verbena bonariensis
70.Iris hybrids
71.New Zealand flax • Phormium T.
‘Gold sword’
Grasses
72.Red fescue molate (turf & natural)
73.June grass • Koelaria macrantha
74.Feather reed grass • Calamagrostis
acutiflora ‘karl forster’
75.Tufted hair grass • Deschampsia
caespitosa
76.Quartz creek gray rush • Juncus patens
77.Deergrass • Muhlenbergia rigens
78.Blue fescue • Festuca glauca
79.Blue oat grass • Helictotrichon
sempervirens