Plants For Chaparral

'Baby Bear' manzanita has dark red almost purple bark, bright rose pink flowers, liked by hummingbirds, butterflies, bumblebees and other native bees, easy to grow, tolerates most soils, Baby Bear man... Learn more.

'Ian bush' manzanita is fast to four feet and seems to stabilize at five feet with a very open form. The green foliage and smooth red bark make the whole bush a great mini-specimen. 'Ian Bush' manzan... Learn more.

'La Panza' manzanita is a hybrid of Arctostaphylos silvicola and probably A. edmundsii 'Carmel Sur' . The foliage starts out a velvety gray and becomes a smooth clean gray with age. This selection was... Learn more.

'Mama Bear' manzanita seems to be beautiful, very stable, very blossomy, has a nice form, sprouts back after damage (did I mention I drove the delivery truck over it), has wonderful pinkish white... Learn more.

Margarita Pearl manzanita is a seedling of Arctostaphylos glauca that has very large flowers and berries. We're not sure if it is all Big Berry manzanita(glauca) or a hybrid between glauca and wellsii... Learn more.

Sonoma manzanita was not impressive until it flowered. The large pink flowers made quite an impression on everyone. The foliage is neat, green, and glossy. The bark is deep red and clean. A nice pla... Learn more.

Sunset Manzanita is a sprawling, evergreen shrub that commonly grows three foot high and six feet wide. If you sheer the top a few times the plant can be easily held to two foot high. Sheer the sid... Learn more.

Hoary Manzanita is an evergray shrub to 6', and grows in sand or rocky soil along the northern California coast. This species needs good drainage (no standing water after 60 minutes in a 1 foot deep ... Learn more.

Brittleleaf Manzanita is an evergreen shrub 3-4' in height. The new name is Arctostaphylos tomentosa ssp. crustacea. Possessing light- green leaves on reddish stems, a basal burl, bright little pink f... Learn more.

This manzanita is a little shrub that grows to 2-3' tall and 4-5' in width. It has auriculate leaves that are gray on smooth dark red stems. It grows on old ocean beaches and bluffs from San Luis Obis... Learn more.

This species is now considered Arctostaphylos glandulosa ssp. cushingiana. A sprawling evergreen shrub to 2' tall and 6' wide, with fuzzy (fine tomentose) stems, and gray foliage, Mouse Mound Manza... Learn more.

Laguna manzanita, Arctostaphylos glandulosa adamsii,  is a sprawling evergreen manzanita shrub that will form a knee high groundcover. VERY gray with smooth red stems. Seems to be very drought tol... Learn more.

Evergreen bush manzanita, usually about 4' tall. It has 1 1/2" gray leaves, red- brown stems. Among the toughest of the manzanita, roots and spreads to 10' wide, usually on sandstone or clay. This wou... Learn more.

Eastwood's manzanita is a very diverse manzanita that grows in the coastal mountains of much of California. The botanists have been arguing for years about varieties, forms, subspecies of this species... Learn more.

A very stable, low-growing manzanita with green foliage and red bark. Sun to part shade, a little extra water in spring, boulder mulch, throw in a small pine tree (P. Jeffreyi or P. attenuata) and you... Learn more.

Big Berry Manzanita, Arctostaphylos glauca is an evergreen shrub to small tree, with red-brown bark, 7-10' foot high and wide. It will be lower and wider where there is snow. A gray green foliag... Learn more.

This Big Berry manzanita was selected from John's property in the Lake of the Woods/Frazier Park area. Elevation was about 5000 feet in full sun mixed with Arctostaphylos parryana, Pinus monophylla... Learn more.

Arctostaphylos glauca "Los Angeles" AKA LA glauca is a Big Berry manzanita from the Santa Monica Mountains. This one was originally collected by Bert Wilson in the area of Mulholland Hwy and Kanan Rd.... Learn more.

Ramona Big Berry Manzanita is a medium sized Manzanita with blue gray foliage and white flowers. A really glorious Big Berry manzanita from the San Vicente/Ramona area. The mother plant was growing ... Learn more.

See Arctostaphylos glauca for horticultural information. I found this plant on a customer's property southwest of Paso Robles California. The house site was carved out of a stand of almost solid Arc... Learn more.

Arctostaphylos glandulosa x glauca, or glauca X glandulosa, is an evergreen bush, usually about 4-6' tall. It has 1 1/2" gray leaves, red-brown stems. Among the toughest of the manzanitas, roots and s... Learn more.

Island Manzanita, Arctostaphylos insularis, is an evergreen shrub to  four feet or so, some sun and good drainage. Glossy dark-green, rounded leaves on green stems on a  with red bark. This manza... Learn more.

Santa Lucia Manzanita is a rare, evergreen shrub, 2' by 6' with 1" white leaves and red bark. It grows in rocky shale, in San Luis Obispo County and is much whiter and lower than Arctostaphylos obisp... Learn more.

This is the Real Manzanita, Arctostaphylos manzanita from northern California. Bark is red, leaves a grey-green, flowers are wonderful white clusters glistening in the morning sun. Ah, grows in red cl... Learn more.

Dr. Hurd Manzanita is an evergreen, multi-branched, treelike hybrid shrub with glossy, light green foliage and grows up to 15', one of the biggest of the big manzanitas. Dr. Hurd is more garden toler... Learn more.