Bring the Hillside Home

Bright yellow flower clusters on gray-green stems, a summer staple of dry, sunny slopes.

An evergreen fern at home in shady creek banks and oak woodlands.

A tall spike of deep blue-violet flowers that brightens spring grasslands, painted here against a field of green.

Long, fragrant clusters of white flowers appear in late spring and ripen into dark fruit each summer.

A shrub that covers itself in saucer-sized yellow blooms each spring. Its name comes from the soft, felted hairs on its leaves and stems.

Rust-red layers of bark peel away in curls to reveal smooth, green-gold new wood underneath.

A lacy white umbel of summer flowers on a tall stem, set against a full field of warm yellow.

A dense evergreen branch hung with dusty blue, berry-like cones.

What look like large white petals are actually modified leaves (called ‘bracts’) that open in spring around a small green flower head. Painted on a deep forest green.

Long needles in bundles of three and a cluster of open cones, looking up into a pale sky. The bark of a mature tree smells faintly of vanilla in the sun.

One of the first native shrubs to wake up in late winter, hanging small white flowers from its branches while most of the hillside is still bare.

Bright red winter berries against glossy leaves through the cooler season.