Front Yard Emerald Carpet Manzanita

A natural hybrid discovered on haven s neck on the southern mendocino coast.

Front yard emerald carpet manzanita.

Often planted en mass to create a large scale. Not a plant for heavy clay it does well in most other soil types. A hybrid of two coastal species a little. Emerald carpet manzanita will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity with a spread of 4 feet.

Fire resistant for defensible space. Has roundish bright green leaves and small pink flowers. Emerald carpet is drought tolerant but tolerates garden water well and is popular in commercial landscaping. Clusters of small white urn shaped flowers decorate the plant in early winter.

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. Arctostaphylos emerald carpet carpet manzanita a low growing shrub 10 to 16 inches tall and spreading to 3 6 feet wide. Its shiny dark green leaves and red stems are complimented by cluster of white flowers in january and february possibly earlier. Try using it in front of a hedge of taller manzanitas for a fresh look.

It will grow to about 1 tall and 6 wide. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn t necessarily require facer plants in front. This popular manzanita forms a wonderful dense green groundcover around 1 ft. Emerald carpet manzanita is an evergreen groundcover.

It grows at a slow rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years. If you don t want to replace your whole lawn emerald carpet works great as a buffer between the existing lawn and other hedges. Tall by 6 ft. Arctostaphylos emerald carpet emerald carpet manzanita evergreen groundcover like shrub 8 14 inches tall and about 5 ft wide.

Small white flowers appear in mid winter through spring and are followed. It is a hybrid between arctostaphylos uva ursi and arctostaphylos nummularia. 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.