Drew Ready

For water use info, the WUCOLS document may be of interest to you.

http://www.emwd.org/conservation/pdf/wucolsb.pdf

Anyone know of any lists where resiliency and maintenance needs of particular cultivars are rated?

Have you checked the UC Davis Arboretum All Stars? The list of 100 plants was devised for the Central Valley but I’ve found it equally useful as far away as Los Angeles. You may find some of these plants of interest. They are not all native but no Cal-IPC listed invasives are included either.

http://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/allstars_browse.aspx

http://lasgrwc2.org/Files/document/Sustainable%20Landscape%20Bibliography_Sustainable_Landscape_Bibliography_1_26_10.pdf