A few of my favorite and most successful plants for the Oregon Coast...

SHRUBS

SUNNY & DRY

Mexican Orange Blossom - Choisya ternata 'Aztec Pearl'

Dwarf Tea Tree - Leptospermum 'Squiggly' (XeraPlants variety)

Dwarf Barberry - Berberis 'Concorde'

California Lilac - Ceanothus 'Blue Jeans' & 'Victoria'

Daisy Bush - Olearia monroi (Thompson's Nursery)

Pacific Wax Myrtle - Myrica californica

Variegated Buckthorn - Rhamnus variegata (Xeraplants nursery)

PART SHADE/SHADE

Oregon Grape - Mahonia 'Soft Caress'

Rhododendron 'Seaview Sunset' (Thompson's Nursery)

Variegated Japanese Aralia - Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web'

Sweet box - Sarcococca confusa

*Evergreen Huckleberry - Vaccinium ovatum

Hydrangea 'Pia' & Cityline 'Paris', 'Bloomstruck'

 

GRASSES

SUNNY & DRY

Maidengrass - Miscanthus 'Morning Light', 'Little Kitten', 'Graziella'

Fountain grass - Pennisetum 'Red Head', 'Moudry'

Little Bluestem - Schzachyrium scoparium 'The Blues', 'Blue Heaven', 'Jazz', 'Standing Ovation'

Mexican Feather Grass - Nasella or Stipa tenuissima

WET

Blue Dart Rush - Juncus 'Blue Dart'

Sedges - Carex testacea 'Prairie Fire',  'Blue Zinger', 'Bowles Golden'

SHADE

Japanese Forest Grass - Hackonechloa 'All Gold'

 

PERENNIALS

SUNNY & DRY

Catmint - Nepeta 'Walker's Low'

Tickseed - Coreopsis 'Moonbeam'

Avens - Geum 'Sangria', 'Blazing Sunsets', 'Flames of Passion'

Ravenswing Chervil - Anthricus 'Ravenswing'

False Indigo - Baptisia (Blooming Junction & XeraPlants)

SHADE

Autumn Fern

Pulmonaria

Hellebores

Tassel Fern

Japanese Holly Fern

Cimicifuga 'Black Negligee'

 

GROUNDCOVERS

SUNNY & DRY

Woolly thyme - Thymus pseudolanginosus

Shore juniper - Juniperus conferta

Sedum 'Blaze of Fulda', 'Betram Anderson'

Dianthus 'Flashing Light' (Blooming Junction)

SHADE

Dwarf Mondo Grass - Ophiopogon 'Nana'

Bishop's Hat - Epimedium

*Deer Fern - Blechum spicant

 

TREES

Himalayan White Birch - Betula jacquemontii 'Whitespire'

Thunderhead Pine - Pinus thunbergii 'Thunderhead'

Oregon Green Black Pine - Pinus nigra 'Oregon Green'

Donard's Gold Cypress - Cupressus 'Donard's Gold'

Purple Smoketree - Cotinus coggygria 'Grace'

Lion's Head Japanese Maple - Acer palmatum 'Shishigashira'

 

* = native plant