Our Plants (List)

The Oso manzanita grows in the coastal mountains near San Luis Obispo on California’s central coast. This area supports quite a variety of manzanita species. The Oso manzanita grows as a rounded shrub with shiny leaves that are somewhat heart-shaped. New leaves have an attractive red margin. Like several other…

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…

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…