Container-Gardening

Many native plants will thrive in containers and can be readily transplanted into the garden when they outgrow their pots. These plants listed below are great choices for a beautiful and low-maintenance container garden.

Any Full Sun Part Shade Full Shade Full Sun Only Part Shade Only Full Shade Only

Any Low Moderate Tall

Any Perennial Herbs Shrubs Trees Annual Herbs Grasses Vines Ferns Succulents

Common Name Scientific Name	Sun	Height	Type	Humboldt Native
Western Columbine Aquilegia formosa		Low 2 - 3 ft	P	✓
Sea Thrift Armeria maritima		Low ~ 1 ft	P	✓
Scarlet Larkspur Delphinium cardinale		Tall 3 - 7 ft	P
Scabland Penstemon Penstemon deustus		Low ~ 1 ft	P	✓
Farewell to Spring Clarkia amoena		Low 2 - 3 ft	A	✓
Punch Bowl Godetia Clarkia bottae		Low ~ 3 ft	A	✓
Diamond Clarkia Clarkia rhomboidea		Low ~ 3 ft	A	✓
Chinese Houses Collinsia heterophylla		Low < 2 ft	A	✓
California Poppy Eschscholzia californica		Low < 2 ft	A	✓
Coastal California Poppy Eschscholzia californica v. maritima		Low ~ 2 ft	A	✓
California Goldfields Lasthenia californica		Low ~ 1 ft	A	✓
Common Tidy Tips Layia platyglossa		Low 1 - 2 ft	A
Common Meadow Foam Limnanthes douglasii		Low ~ 2 ft	A	✓
Miniature Lupine Lupinus bicolor		Low < 1 ft	A	✓
Sky Lupine Lupinus nanus		Low < 2 ft	A	✓
Five-Spot Nemophila maculata		Low ~ 1 ft	A
Baby Blue Eyes Nemophila menziesii		Low ~ 1 ft	A	✓
Canyon Dudleya Dudleya cymosa		Low < 1 ft
Bluff Lettuce Dudleya farinosa		Low < 1 ft		✓
Lanceleaf Liveforever Dudleya lanceolata		Low < 1 ft		✓
Broad-leaved Stonecrop Sedum spathulifolium		Low < 1 ft		✓
Siskiyou Blue Fescue Festuca idahoensis 'siskiyou blue'		Low 1 - 2 ft
Mock Orange Philadelphus lewisii		Tall 5 - 12 ft		✓
Red Flowering Currant Ribes sanguineum		Tall 7 - 13 ft		✓