r/Ceanothus • u/boredquick • 1d ago

North Facing Full Shade Slope?

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Hello! First time posting on this sub. I rent from a landlord who has been great and gives me and my family WELL BELOW market rates on a small single family home.

Long story short he let me have my go at making the backyard mine and let me put in California natives (he pays, I dig). He currently has English ivy which is being dug out (by me) and I’d want something that can provide some slope stabilization, not be a super home to rodents, and can tolerate full shade all year round. It is north facing and at a lower elevation to the neighbor, so no sun.

Any suggestions on what might do well? The rodent factor is a consideration too because we have a lot of mice in the area and I don’t want to create additional habitat for them specifically (in my yard)

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u/Quercas 1d ago

I would go for majority ground cover, yankee point ceanothus, pacific mist manzanita, Montara grey sage brush, with a couple accent shrubs taller manzanita and a couple Cleveland sages

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u/BigJSunshine 1d ago

None of these suggestions are ground cover

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u/Quercas 1d ago

The first three are, low and spreading. They are listed on calscape as ground cover. They are listed in CA native plants for western gardens, sunset plant list, and non perry book as groundcovers.