Our Plants (List)

This rare manzanita grows on a few mountains in southern San Diego County, and possibly into Baja, Mexico. It is an unusually beautiful species. The leaves are silver-green due to a waxy coating and fine hairs, both of which facilitate water conservation. There is often a red margin when the…

‘Pacifi Mist’ is one of the most popular low-growing groundcover manzanita’s. It spreads rapidly as a dense mound of gray-green leaves and is tolerant of some summer water and full sun in hot inland areas. At Rancho Santa Ana, where this hybrid manzanita was discovered, summer temperatures often exceed 100F….

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…