We spent 13 years building an abundant fruit forest, annual veggie beds, perennial medicinal herbs, and a healthy mixed hardwood-coniferous forest and now we’ve sold our property to the next stewards so that we can begin a new homesteading project in Vermont closer to our best friends and their kids.

Don’t worry - we plan to keep this website up and running so that our customers can reference what we’ve written about our plants!

We’ll let you know once we re-start a farm in Vermont!

Blue Blossom

Ceanothus thrysiflorus

Habit
Shrub
Ecological Role
Attracts pollinatorsDeer resistantDrought tolerantEvergreen leavesFast growingHedgerowsHosts bacteria that fix nitrogenNative to the Pacific NW
Availability
Sold out

Blue blossom, also known as California lilac, is a fabulous showy broadleaf evergreen shrub.  Lilac colored flowers bloom in mid to late spring and have a wonderful fragrance.  Native to coastal northern California and southern Oregon, it is drought tolerant and deer tolerant and easy to grow. It can grow up to 20 feet tall in the wild but usally does not grow more than ten feet tall in an urban landscape.  It responds well to pruning.  Like all broadleaf evergreens, it can get die back during a very cold winter.