Front Yard Emerald Carpet Manzanita

Often planted en mass to create a large scale.
Front yard emerald carpet manzanita. 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. A hybrid of two coastal species a little. Emerald carpet manzanita is an evergreen groundcover.
Tall by 6 ft. 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. This popular manzanita forms a wonderful dense green groundcover around 1 ft.
Fire resistant for defensible space. Try using it in front of a hedge of taller manzanitas for a fresh look. If you don t want to replace your whole lawn emerald carpet works great as a buffer between the existing lawn and other hedges. Arctostaphylos emerald carpet manzanita.
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. Not a plant for heavy clay it does well in most other soil types. Its shiny dark green leaves and red stems are complimented by cluster of white flowers in january and february possibly earlier.
Small white flowers appear in mid winter through spring and are followed. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn t necessarily require facer plants in front. It will grow to about 1 tall and 6 wide. Clusters of small white urn shaped flowers decorate the plant in early winter.
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. A natural hybrid discovered on haven s neck on the southern mendocino coast. Arctostaphylos emerald carpet carpet manzanita a low growing shrub 10 to 16 inches tall and spreading to 3 6 feet wide.