City Landscaping

Have you ever wondered what trees and plants you see throughout Saratoga in the medians, parks, the Saratoga Village, or at City Hall? The City selects trees and plants for its landscaping that are drought tolerant, bee-friendly pollinators, or California natives that are suited for the climate.

Official Flower

Saratoga has also designated an official flower, the red geranium. Red geraniums can be spotted in planters and hanging baskets throughout the Saratoga Village, seen in front of the Warner Hutton House at City Hall, and viewed in numerous gardens throughout the city. The red geranium is a perennial that enjoys full sun or partial shade and is considered moderately drought tolerant, making it easy to care for.

Trees

  • Arbutus Strawberry Tree
  • Australian Willow
  • Autumn Purple Ash
  • Blue Oak
  • Bottle Tree
  • California Sycamore
  • Camphor
  • Carob
  • Casuarina
  • Catalpa
  • Chinese Elm
  • Chinese Pistache
  • Chinese Tallow
  • Coast Live Oak
  • Crabapple
  • Crape Myrtle
  • Deodar Cedar
  • Dodonaea Hop Bush
  • Flowering Cherry
  • Flowering Plum
  • Ginkgo
  • Golden Rain Tree
  • Japanese Maple
  • Liquid Amber
  • Loquat
  • Magnolia
  • Maytenus
  • Monterey Pine
  • Olive
  • Ornamental Pomegranate
  • Paperbark Tree
  • Pepper Tree
  • Photinia
  • Podocarpus
  • Red Maple
  • Red Oak
  • Redwood
  • Smoke Tree
  • Stone Pine
  • Tristania
  • Tulip Tree
  • Valley Oak
  • Western Redbud
  • Zelkova

Plants

  • Agapanthus
  • Baccharis
  • Barberry
  • Boxwood
  • Camellia
  • Capeweed
  • Carpet Roses
  • Ceanothus
  • Coffeeberry
  • Coleonema
  • Coprosma
  • Cotoneaster
  • Daisies
  • Day Lily
  • Deer Grass
  • Dodonaea
  • Dwarf Bottlebrush
  • Elaeagnus
  • Escallonia
  • Euryops
  • Ferns
  • Fescue Grasses
  • Flax
  • Fountain Grass
  • Foxtail Grasses
  • Grevillea
  • Ground Ivy
  • Hydrangea
  • Hypericum
  • Juniper
  • Lantana
  • Lavender
  • Loropetalum
  • Mahonia
  • Manzanita
  • Meidiland Roses
  • Mexican Sage
  • Nandina
  • Native Grasses
  • Nepeta
  • Oleander
  • Pittosporum
  • Plumbago
  • Pyracantha
  • Rhaphiolepis
  • Rosemary
  • Russian Sage
  • Sea Lavender
  • Society Garlic
  • Star Jasmine
  • Statice
  • Toyon
  • Tree Mallow
  • Verbena Lilac
  • Vinca
  • Xylosma
  • Yarrow
  • Zauschneria