Our Plants (List)

‘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…

One of the reasons we have such a wide variety of manzanitas in California is their propensity to vary in size and form. Rapid diversification allows manzanita to adapt to changes in climate or terrain. One might compare the diversity of forms within a given manzanita species with that seen…

This hybrid manzanita was discovered in Mendocino County in the 1960s, and has enjoyed wide spread use as an adaptable groundcover. It grows in a dense form to about 16 inches tall and six feet wide. The bark is cinnamon red. The pure white flowers of late winter mature to…

When the land which San Francisco now occupies was rolling grasslands, the franciscan manzanita grew in serpentine outcropping throughout the region. As the city expanded, the plant continued to survive in a few locations, mainly at the Laurel Hill Cemetery in the heart of the city. Once this land was…