Its Sunday and I sing praises to my one of my favorite neighbors, the marvelous
# Coyote Bush (#Baccharis pilularis,) native to ca coastal chapparal habitats.
Coyote Bush, the house on the block where everyone's welcome and everyone hangs out. A warm hearted Grandma and Grandpa that takes care of everyone. A reliable babysitter. A favored safe place for deer, to take a nap, give birth, leave fawns while mama has lunch. Quail do the same. Favorite place for small birds to build nests. Coyote Bush harbors and rears young hardwoods. An acorn or madrone berry, who lands under a coyote bush has a good chance of becoming a full grown tree. Coyote bush blooms in late fall, and winter, is an important food source for insects, at a time of year when food is scarce.
Coyote Bush cares for the soil too. She is one of the best erosion control plants in existence. The upslope, dry ground, equivalent of Willow.
She holds her ground,
on a landslide,
the one part that doesn't slide has Coyote Bush.
Coyote Bush can be propagated by cuttings. 18" long, thumb sized canes can be planted directly in the ground during the rainy season, leaving 4 -6 " above ground. Happily grows in poor soil, on bare bank road cuts, and landslides.
Coyote Bush is one of my preferred bioengineering resource plants, excellent for constructing brush dams and branch packing, to stabilize gullies caused by culverts, and class 3 watercourses.
Coyote Bush has a fire resistant waxy resin on the leaves. A great drought tolerant landscaping plant, that can easily be pruned into a hedge. Coyote Bush has male and female plants.
# ErosionControl
# bioengineering #DroughtRestistant
# BrushDams #BranchPacking
# fall/winterBlooming
# CaNativePlants
# CoyoteBush #BaccharisPilularis
# ErosionControlPlants
# Chaparral
# Landscaping
# NativePlantLandscaping
#landslides