Often planted en mass to create a large scale.
Front yard emerald carpet manzanita.
Small white flowers appear in mid winter through spring and are followed.
Arctostaphylos emerald carpet carpet manzanita a low growing shrub 10 to 16 inches tall and spreading to 3 6 feet wide.
This popular manzanita forms a wonderful dense green groundcover around 1 ft.
It is perfect for foundation plantings and the hell strip between your sidewalk and street too.
If you don t want to replace your whole lawn emerald carpet works great as a buffer between the existing lawn and other hedges.
A natural hybrid discovered on haven s neck on the southern mendocino coast.
It is a hybrid between arctostaphylos uva ursi and arctostaphylos nummularia.
Emerald carpet manzanita will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity with a spread of 4 feet.
Its shiny dark green leaves and red stems are complimented by cluster of white flowers in january and february possibly earlier.
Clusters of small white urn shaped flowers decorate the plant in early winter.
Tall by 6 ft.
Not a plant for heavy clay it does well in most other soil types.
Try using it in front of a hedge of taller manzanitas for a fresh look.
It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn t necessarily require facer plants in front.
It grows at a slow rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.
A hybrid of two coastal species a little.
Give emerald carpet manzanita a try.
Has roundish bright green leaves and small pink flowers.
Fire resistant for defensible space.
Emerald carpet manzanita this popular manzanita emerald carpet is valued for its dense deep green foliage and rapid spreading growth up to two feet a year.
It will grow to about 1 tall and 6 wide.
Arctostaphylos emerald carpet emerald carpet manzanita evergreen groundcover like shrub 8 14 inches tall and about 5 ft wide.
It is a very compact and dense plant with small glossy deep green leaves that nearly hide the attractive cinnamon red stems with exfoliating bark.