Our Plants (List)

Pajaro manzanita ‘Paradise’ is a selection of one of the most ornate of California’s many manzanita species. The form is oval. The auriculate leaves emerge a deep red and mature to gray green with a red margin. These contrast well with the purple, shredding bark. The pink winter flowers are…

This rare manzanita grows in the hills of southern San Luis Obispo County from the immediate coast to about 40 miles inland in the Machesna Mountain Wilderness. It grows as an upright, rounded shrub to about seven feet. The leaves are also upright – “ascending” – and generally medium green…

Sandmat manzanita has a very narrow range near the coast of Monterey Bay. It grows in sandy soil as a very low groundcover or mounding shrub. This manzanita tends to root at the leaf nodes as they touch the ground, so there is really no limit to how wide it…

Sandmat manzanita has a very narrow range near the coast of Monterey Bay. It grows in sandy soil as a very low groundcover or mounding shrub. The ‘Wavelength’ selection is a mounding form, up to about three feet in height. This manzanita tends to root at the leaf nodes as…

The pointleaf manzanita grows in California’s coastal mountains from about San Benito County south. It is also widely distributed in Mexico and the Southwest. Along with A. uva-ursi and A. patula, it is one of the most widely distributed manzanita species. It is not surprising that it is one of…