Plant List for the Roving Garden Railroad
San Francisco Bay Area, California, USDA Hardiness Zone 9
ANNUALS
Sweet alyssum (seedlings crop up near town)
Lobularia maritima ‘Easter Basket’
CONIFERS
Short-needled cedar (leaning tree on mountain pointing to town)
Cedrus atlantica var. (Zones 7-9)
Pygmy deodara cedar (growing out of mountain featherrock)
Cedrus deodara ‘Pygmy’ (Zones 6-9)
Green Globe false cypress (street row behind town and left of portal)
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Green Globe’ (Zones 5-10)
Kosteri dwarf false cypress (right of waterfall)
Chamaecyparis obtusa (Zones 4-9)
Dwarf false cypress (shading old boxcar)
Chamaecyparis var. (Zones 6-9)
Japanese cedar (behind the doctor’s garden)
Cryptomeria japonica ‘Tenzan Yatsubusa’ (Zones 5-9)
Swane’s Golden Italian cypress (flanking grandfather’s fancy mansion)
Cupressus sempervirens ‘Swane’s Golden’ (Zones 7-9)
Shimpaku juniper (leaning over old boxcar)
Juniperus chinensis ‘Shimpaku’ (Zones 3-9)
Dwarf Alberta spruce (behind old boxcar camp)
Picea glauca ‘Conica’ (Zones 4-8)
Lacebark pine (park tree right of grandfather’s mansion)
Pinus bungeana (Zones 4-9)
Dwarf Japanese yew (base of mountain behind old boxcar)
Taxus cuspidata ‘Nana’ (Zones 4-7)
GROUNDCOVERS
Rupturewort (behind town on lower hill)
Herniaria glabra (Zones 5-10)
Mother Lode creeping juniper (mountaintop)
Juniperus horizontalis ‘Mother Lode’ (Zones 3-10)
Dwarf mondo grass (behind old boxcar and under rosemary tree)
Ophiopogon japonicus ‘Nana’ (Zones 6-10)
Stonecrop (left of newly painted boxcar)
Sedum sp. (Zones 3-10)
California blue-eyed grass (left of waterfall)
Sisyrinchium bellum (Zones 9-11)
Elfin thyme (park grass and mountain meadow)
Thymus serpyllum ‘Elfin’ (Zones 4-10)
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SHRUBS and TREES (non-conifer)
Trost’s Dwarf birch (deciduous tree center of town)
Betula pendula ‘Trost’s Dwarf’ (Zones 3-9)
Kingsville Dwarf boxwood (low shrubs in front of mansion)
Buxus microphylla ‘Kingsville Dwarf’ (Zones 5-9)
Dwarf English boxwood (right of post office)
Buxus sempervirens ‘Suffruticosa’ (Zones 6-8)
Korean hornbeam (deciduous tree right of train passenger shelter)
Carpinus coreana (Zones 5-9)
Ken Aslet crassula (in pots sunk into side gates)
Crassula sarcocaulus ‘Ken Aslet’ (Zones 9-11)
Miniature pine tree (succulent by portal near fancy house)
Crassula tetragona (Zones 10-11)
Littleleaf rockspray (apple trees near greenhouse)
Cotoneaster microphyllus ‘Thymifolius’ (Zones 5-9)
Japanese euonymus (yellow-tipped shrub behind town)
Euonymus japonicus ’Ovatus Aureus’ (Zones 7-11)
Prince Rupert lemon-scented geranium (right of portal below greenhouse)
Pelargonium crispum ‘French Lace’, (Zones 9-11)
Contorted Japanese cherry (deciduous tree next to greenhouse)
Prunus incise ‘Kojo-no-mai’ (Zones 5-9)
Dwarf pomegranate (deciduous tree corner left of newly painted boxcar)
Punica granatum ‘Nana Emperor’ (Zones 7-11)
Si miniature rose (front of newly painted boxcar)
Rosa sp. ‘Si’ (Zones 5-10)
Tom Thumb miniature rose (left of newly painted boxcar)
Rosa sp. ‘Tom Thumb’ (Zones 5-10)
Prostrate rosemary (corner above mine)
Rosmarinus prostrata (Zones 7-11)
Snowrose (behind Grandfather’s mansion)
Serissa foetida (Zones 8-10)
Seiju elm (deciduous tree lining street behind town)
Ulmus parvifolia ‘Seiju’ (Zones 5-9)
VINES
White appleberry (on front post right of town)
Billardia longiflora ‘Alba’ (Zones 7-10)
Needlepoint ivy (front post left of town and on back lattice)
Hedera helix ‘Needlepoint’ (Zones 4-10)