Manzanitas from Northern California
Manzanitas from northern California usually can take a little more water that those from central and southern California. However, they are still very drought tolerant. They make excellent hummingbird plants and tidy evergreen shrubs.
Some of these species we don't carry as they can't take the dry heat of our summers (upwards of 115° F), or nobody buys them, (usually because they don't know they exist). To learn more about each plant or to get shipping information, click the link.
Manzanitas are extremely important plants for wildlife.
Hummingbirds, Butterflies, many pollinators and predators need the flowers for survival.More manzanitas can be found here
Central California Manzanitas
Southern California Manzanitas
Hybrid California Manzanitas
Hoary Manzanita. is an evergray shrub to 6', and grows in sand or rocky soil along the northern California coast.
Hairy Manzanita evergreen, 5-10' high shrub that grows along the coastal plains in the evergreen forest from northern California to British Columbia.
Arctostaphylos elegans, Konocti Manzanita
Konocti manzanita has bright green foliage with white flowers. It is found in Chaparral and Central Oak Woodland in the mountains of Lake county.
Arctostaphylos intricata This manzanita grows anywhere from 3 to 6 ft tall and has nearly black bark. The flowers vary from pink to white. It is found in rocky areas in mixed evergreen forest from Del Norte county into Oregon.
Arctostaphylos manzanita is a small shrub with dark green leaves that lives in the northern Sierras and coastal mountains.
Arctostaphylos densiflora Harmony Manzanita is a beautiful groundcover
Howard McMinn Manzanita can be used as a small hedge or border.
Indian Manzanita is an evergreen shrub, 3-8' tall, native to Sierra Nevada from 2500-6000' elevation in Plumus to Tulare County.
Ione Manzanita is a little sprawling manzanita that wants to grow near Ione.
Pinemat Manzanita grows up in the Sierras at about 8000-10000 ft We've not found a selection that likes it at lower elevations.
Glossyleaf Manzanita is another one that we're trying to find a form that will grow anywhere but where it is native to.
The forms we've played with grow 1 cm per year. 10 years to make a gallon sized plant is not very practical unless you are doing bonsai and can charge $100/.
The forms we've played with grow 1 cm per year. 10 years to make a gallon sized plant is not very practical unless you are doing bonsai and can charge $100/.
Greenleaf Manzanita, Arctostaphylos patula, is an evergreen shrub that is common in areas of heavy snow at higher elevations in the eastern Sierras through Utah and north into Oregon, extending down into Lake County, California. Grows to about 6 ft. in most California gardens.
Dr. Hurd Manzanita is the largest manzanitas in the trade. It will commonly grow to 15 ft. tall.
Louis Edmunds Manzanita plant for the gray foliage and purple, not red, bark and bright pink flowers. Excellent hedge plant
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi saxicola is one we've been trying to find in the trade for years.
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Radiant Manzanita makes a beautiful flat groundcover.
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi suborbiculata San Bruno makes a low mounding groundcover.
Arctostaphylos virgata, Bolinas manzanita
Bolinas manzanita grows 6 to 12 ft tall with bright green foliage, reddish-brown bark, and white to pink flowers. It grows along the edges of the closed cone coniferous forest and redwood forest in Marin County.
Whiteleaf manzanita grows about 6 ft. tall from Kern County north to about the Oregon Border.
Hummingbirds are the close allies of manzanitas. If you plant a manzanita, you usually get a few hummingbirds.
Arctostaphylos
densiflora Sentinel
Manzanita makes a good foundation plant, small hedge or nice accent plant.
Some Northern California manzanitas in Sonoma County.
