Front Yard Emerald Carpet Manzanita

Try using it in front of a hedge of taller manzanitas for a fresh look.

Front yard emerald carpet manzanita.

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. 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.

Give emerald carpet manzanita a try. Arctostaphylos emerald carpet emerald carpet manzanita evergreen groundcover like shrub 8 14 inches tall and about 5 ft wide. Emerald carpet manzanita is an evergreen groundcover. It will grow to about 1 tall and 6 wide.

Has roundish bright green leaves and small pink flowers. Emerald carpet manzanita will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity with a spread of 4 feet. If you don t want to replace your whole lawn emerald carpet works great as a buffer between the existing lawn and other hedges. This popular manzanita forms a wonderful dense green groundcover around 1 ft.

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. It is a hybrid between arctostaphylos uva ursi and arctostaphylos nummularia.

Tall by 6 ft. Often planted en mass to create a large scale. 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.

Not a plant for heavy clay it does well in most other soil types. It is perfect for foundation plantings and the hell strip between your sidewalk and street too. Small white flowers appear in mid winter through spring and are followed.