Pacific Northwest Gardening: picture of parking strip - any add in ideas?, 1 by Katye

Katye wrote:
Ceanothus normally do quite well here if they are planted in an area with good drainage. They do not need supplemental water - just get them through their first year.
They can be grown as an evergreen hedge - they respond to pruning, but I don't know how well they'd like being pruned hard. Most of them get very big, but there are the shorter varieties which tend to grow low & wide.
C. 'Julia Phelps' - she's a biggun', and the buds have a very nice rosy contrast to the opened flowers: