Fremontodendron 'Ken Taylor'

Fremontodendron 'Ken Taylor' grows to only 5 feet tall and spreads to at least 8 feet. A great plant for slopes or other well drained sites. Full sun, and no irrigation water needed once established. It blooms prolific and large golden flowers with a darker orange outside petal in the spring and summer. Cultivars such as this are horticultural selections and hybrids, not part of the native ecology but work beautifully in the garden. Attracts beneficial insects, bees, butterfly & other insect nectar gatherers. A F2 hybrid between Fremontia decumbens and Fremontia californicum. created by Ken Taylor at his native plant nursery and garden in Aromas, CA

Durable shrub to 6' tall and 12' across with a mounding habit suitable for banks. Flowers are yellow with orange highlights and partly hidden by the foliage. Exceptional when mixed with ceanothus or rockrose.

Selected by famed nurseryman Ken Taylor, from among crosses between a large growing form and the more spreading F. decumbens. This hybrid is smaller than the typical flannelbush, reaching 4-5' tall and spreading to 6-8' wide or more. Leaves are fuzzy, indeed like flannel, and more dusty green than others. The large, 3", summer flowers are golden yellow and face down a bit showing their more orange backs. Easy to use as an espalier subject and wonderful on any well-drained site in full sun and mineral soil with NO summer water once established. Frost hardy to 5 °F, mid USDA zone 7 with the very best drainage and, again, no added summer water. Though there are several, varying forms circulating as "Ken Taylor" this is the official and true form of that plant.

Lower growing hybrid that is very floriferous and perhaps a bit hardier, at least for us. Evergreen leaves with rounded lobes and golden yellow flowers for months on end.