Front Yard Emerald Carpet Manzanita

Give emerald carpet manzanita a try.

Front yard emerald carpet manzanita.

Has roundish bright green leaves and small pink flowers. A natural hybrid discovered on haven s neck on the southern mendocino coast. If you don t want to replace your whole lawn emerald carpet works great as a buffer between the existing lawn and other hedges. It is perfect for foundation plantings and the hell strip between your sidewalk and street too.

A hybrid of two coastal species a little. Tall by 6 ft. Its shiny dark green leaves and red stems are complimented by cluster of white flowers in january and february possibly earlier. This popular manzanita forms a wonderful dense green groundcover around 1 ft.

Try using it in front of a hedge of taller manzanitas for a fresh look. Fire resistant for defensible space. Not a plant for heavy clay it does well in most other soil types. Emerald carpet manzanita is an evergreen groundcover.

Small white flowers appear in mid winter through spring and are followed. Often planted en mass to create a large scale. Arctostaphylos emerald carpet manzanita. Clusters of small white urn shaped flowers decorate the plant in early winter.

Arctostaphylos emerald carpet carpet manzanita a low growing shrub 10 to 16 inches tall and spreading to 3 6 feet wide. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn t necessarily require facer plants in front. 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. Emerald carpet is drought tolerant but tolerates garden water well and is popular in commercial landscaping.

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. Emerald carpet manzanita will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity with a spread of 4 feet.