Carthay Center Elementary

In April 2007 Carthay Center Elementary School did a large improvement project.

Planned for that day were a shady bird garden, a tropical garden, and a poetry garden among others. The project involved the building of arbors and lattice walls, and lots and LOTS of gardening.

Lunch area bed:

Star jasmine, Confederate jasmine, Trachelospermum jasminoides (14 - 1 gallon)

Poetry Garden:

Mexican Weeping Bamboo, Otatea acuminata aztecorum (3 - 15 gallon)
Gardenia (5 – 5 or 1 gallon gallon)
Camellias, white (7 – 5 or 1 gallon)
Scented Geraniums
Heliotrope
Creeping rosemary

Tropical Garden:

Hawaiian papaya (3 – 5 or 15 gallon)
Bananas - edible (3 – 5 or 1 gallon)
Pineapples (3 – 1 gallon)
Pineapple guava (3 – 5 or 1 gallon)
Strawberry Guava ( 3 – 5 or 1 gallon)
Mango Tree (1 – 15 gallon)
Ginger (3 - 1 or 5 gallon)
other?

Front Bed: drought tolerant, color

Rainbow sunrise or RED(or similar variety) Flax, Phormium (2 – 15 gallon)
Echium, Echium candicans, Maderas Pride 10 – 5 gallon
Salvia, red (or similar) 15 – 1 gallon
Mexican sage, 5 – 1 gallon
Lambs ear, Stachys byzantina 50 – 1 gallon – or equivalent in six packs/flats.
Santa Barabara daisy, 10 flats
Stipa (5 – 1 gallon)
Dusty miller (4 flats)
Staked pink jasmine ( 5 – 5 gallon)
Double pink NZ tea tree (3 – 5 gallon)
Organic fertilizer – 10 lbs.
Palm tree fertilizer stakes – 1 box.
Orchid Tree fertilizer stakes – 2 boxes

Abutilon
Fuschias
Grasses
Ribes Viburnifolium (Evergreen currant, Catalina perfume)
Yarrows

Native plants for border along path:

Island bush poppy, Dendromecon harfordii (7 - 1 gallon)
Matilija Poppy, Romneya coulteria, (5 - 1 gallon)
‘Dr. Hurd' Manzanita, Arctostaphylos ‘Dr. Hurd’, (1 – 5 gallon)
Farewell-to-Spring ,Clarkia amoena (5 - 1 gallon)
California Lilac variety, Ceanothus (any variety: ‘Ray Hartman’‘Joyce Coulter’’Julia Phelps’, etc.) (10 – 1 gallon)
Flannel Bush, Fremontodendron (1 - 1 gallon)
Wooley Blue Curls, Trichostemma lanatum (3 – 1 gallon)
Sticky Monkey Flower, Mimulus aurantiacus (3 – 1 gallon)

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