Caryopteris 'Summer Sorbet', a winner with me. Full sun, will take dryness. Bright yellow/green foliage, great with darker companions, blue late summer flowers for the bees/butterfies. Annual cut back in early spring, same as Butterfly bush. I gave away a lot of new plants I propagated from the low lying self rooted branches this spring. Here is a link that might be useful:

This is my star jasmine. Grows like crazy after the first year or two. Wonderful fragrant flowers in the spring. It's growing on a four foot chain link fence on right. Covers it completely.

^^^ Correct. Common lilacs are Syringa species, a member of the Olive family. Ceanothus is in the Buckthorn family. Most of the west coast species are native to California and they can be very fragrant. As common lilacs do not really grow well in CA, ceanothus is the closest substitute :-)

I'm a bit south of you, but in our wooded area, we have native dogwoods, native honeysuckles (NOT the Japanese honeysuckles, which are invasive), and blueberries in the sunnier areas; high bush can get up to 7'-8' tall, but you can also get half-highs like 'Northland,' which will top out closer to 4', and the straight species is a great pollinator and quite attractive just with smaller berries; low bush will be more ground cover like. American holly is a nice evergreen. Several of these are deer candy, however ... so if you have deer (which I'd be surprised if you didn't ... and yes, moose count) your new shrubs will be browsed ...