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Howard McMinn is perhaps the best known of California’s many manzanita species. It is certainly the selection most widely planted. It is one of the many selections of the Vine Hill manzanita, a rare endemic of Sonoma County. Howard McMinn grows as an upright shrub to six feet or so…

This rarely encountered selection was made by nurseryman Louis Edmunds in the vicinity of Vine Hill Road and Guerneville Road in Sonoma County. This region is home to the Vine Hill manzanita, but also several other species that readily hybridize, producing progeny of great variety. The ‘Lynne’ selection is thought…

‘Sentinel’ is one of the many selections of the very rare vine hill manzanita. This shrub grows in a rounded form densely covered with dark green leaves. The winter flowers are light pink The tallest of the popular Vine Hill manzanita selections, ‘Sentinel’ may be trained with summer pruning into…

The ‘Dr. Hurd’ is justifiably popular. It grows in an upright, rounded form with an open structure that reveals the rich red-orange bark of artistic tortuous branches. The January flower clusters are generous and pure white. ‘Dr. Hurd’ manzanita grows into a small tree with careful summer pruning. It thrives…

Little sur manzanita is a resident of the immediate coast from the Monterey Peninsula down to Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. It grows as a dense ground cover in this ocean moderated environment to about one foot in height, with round dark green leaves and bronze colored fresh growth. The…

Little sur manzanita is a resident of the immediate coast from the Monterey Peninsula down to Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. It grows as a dense ground cover in this ocean moderated environment to about one foot in height, with round dark green leaves and bronze colored fresh growth. The…

This is a selection of the little sur manzanita, endemic to northwestern Monterey County. It is presumably named for its mature size, which is larger than the typical species by a foot or so. Its form is rounded and open, revealing attractive cinnamon bark on tortuous branches. ‘Big Sur’ manzanita…

One of the many selections of this Monterey County endemic (i.e. found there and nowhere else), ‘Carmel Sur’ is an outstanding groundcover manzanita. It grows densely in a low, expanding mat with deep green waxy foliage. It does not seem to thin-out in the center over time. The light pink…

The Little Sur manzanita is endemic to a short stretch of the Big Sur coast in Central California. This is a species that grows within sight of the Ocean. Like most selections of this manzanita species, ‘Rosy Dawn’ forms a low mat of tightly spaced oval leaves. The patch will…