Visit the Demonstration Garden at the Wellsite on Reservation and Salinas Avenue to view plants that thrive in Marina with only seasonal water.

Trees and Large Shrubs - a partial list

Aesculus californica - Buckeye
Arbutus Marina
Arctostaphylos pajaroensis - Pajaro Manzanita
Arctostaphylos hookerI - Monterey Manzanita
Arctostaphylos edmundsii - Little Sur Manzanita
Berberis pinnata - California Barberry 
Buddleyia davidii - Butterfly Bush
Ceanothus ’Ray Hartman’
Ceanothus thyrsifolius - Blue Blossom
Ceanothus cuneatus rigidus
Ceanothus ’Julia Phelps’
Cupressus macrocarpa - Monterey Cypress
Cistus salvifolius - Sageleaf Rockrose
Cistus skanbergii
Cupressus macrocarpa - Monterey Cypress
Dendromecon hartfordii - Island Bush Poppy
Fremontodendron californica - Flannelbush
Garrya elliptica - Coast Silk Tassel tree
Galvesia speciosa - Island Snapdragon
Ribes sanguinium - Red-Flowering Currant
Ribes speciosum - Fuchsia-Flowering Gooseberry
Rhamnus californica - Coffeeberry
Romneya coulterI - Matilija Poppy                                
Quercus agrifolia - Coast Live Oak      

Small Shrubs, Grasses and Annuals

Artemesia californica - California Sage Brush
Artemisia ’Powis Castle’
Baccharis pilularis - Coyote Brush
Baccharis' Twin Peak's
Camissonia chieranthifolia - Beach Primrose
Castilleja exserta ssp latifolia - Owl Clover
Cheiranthus cheiri - Wallflower
Clarkia unguiculata - Elegant Clarkia
Clarkia amoena - Godetia
Clarkia lewisii - Lewis’s Clarkia
Collinsia heterophylla - Chinese Houses
Diplacus parvifolius - Red Monkeyflower
Diplacus longiflorus - Southern Monkeyflower
Deschampsia caespitosa - Tufted Hair Grass
Epilobuim (Zauschneria) californium - California fuchsia
Ericamaria ericoides - False Heather
Ericameria fasciculata - Single leaf False Heather
Erigeron glaucus - Seaside Daisy
Eriogonum fasciculatum - Coast Buckwheat
Eriogonum grande rubescens - Red Buckwheat
Eschscholtzia californica - California Poppy
Festuca rubra - Creeping Red Fescue
Festuca glauca - Blue Fescue
Grindelia stricta - Gumweed
Helianthemum scoparium - Yellow Sunrose
Isocoma menziesii
Isomeris arborea - Bladder Pod
Lasthenia chrysostoma - Goldfields
Layia platyglossa - Gilia tricolor Bird’s Eye Gilia
Leymus glaucus - Blue Wild Rye
Limonium sinuatum - Statice
Linanthus grandiflorus - Mountain Phlox
Lotus scoparius - Deer Weed
Lupinus bicolor
Lupinus nanus - Dwarf Lupine
Lupinus arboreus - Bush lupine
Mathiola longipetala - Evening Scented Stock
Mimulus aurantiacus - Sticky Monkeyflower
Nasella pulchra - Purple Needle Grass
Nassella cernua - Nodding Needle Grass
Nemophila menziesii - Baby Blue Eyes
Oenothera hookeri - Mexican Primrose
Pholistoma auritum - Fiesta Flower
Salvia - Black Sage
Salvia ClevelandiI - Cleveland Sage
Salvia spathacea - Hummingbird Sage
Salvia leucophylla - Purple Sage
Salvia africana lutea - Golden Sage, Beach Sage
Salvia mellifera 
Salvia nemorosa
Salvia sonomaensis - Creeping Sage
Sysirinchium bellum - Blue Eyed Grass
Philadelphus lewisii - Western Mock Orange
Salvia sonomaensis - Creeping Sage
Grindelia stricta - Gumweed
Mathiola longipetala - Evening Scented Stock