Front Yard Emerald Carpet Manzanita

It grows at a slow rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 30 years.

Front yard emerald carpet manzanita.

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

Arctostaphylos emerald carpet emerald carpet manzanita evergreen groundcover like shrub 8 14 inches tall and about 5 ft wide. It will grow to about 1 tall and 6 wide. Not a plant for heavy clay it does well in most other soil types. Emerald carpet is drought tolerant but tolerates garden water well and is popular in commercial landscaping.

Emerald carpet manzanita is an evergreen groundcover. Arctostaphylos emerald carpet carpet manzanita a low growing shrub 10 to 16 inches tall and spreading to 3 6 feet wide. If you don t want to replace your whole lawn emerald carpet works great as a buffer between the existing lawn and other hedges. Often planted en mass to create a large scale.

Clusters of small white urn shaped flowers decorate the plant in early winter. 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. A natural hybrid discovered on haven s neck on the southern mendocino coast.

Has roundish bright green leaves and small pink flowers. Fire resistant for defensible space. Small white flowers appear in mid winter through spring and are followed. This popular manzanita forms a wonderful dense green groundcover around 1 ft.

Give emerald carpet manzanita a try. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn t necessarily require facer plants in front. Tall by 6 ft.