When in Doubt…
Manzanita
…post a manzanita photo. I’m still in the mountains, so I don’t know what’s going on down in my garden, but whatever is happening, I’m sure that the trunk of this manzanita is appropriate. Manzanita trunks are great for winter interest, and I’ve decided they’re great for remote-blogging interest, too. This is one of my favorite individual specimens, a manzanita at Tilden. Across the path from it is another great one with peeling bark. Four of them form an arbor. The ones on the right are Arctostaphylos montana-regis and the one on the left is Arctostaphylos pallida, the arcto native to the Oakland-Berkeley hills. So nice.
Manzanita bark
Manzanitas at Tilden
Tags: arctostaphylos, manzanita, tilden
This entry was posted on Friday, August 21st, 2009 at 6:14 am and is filed under california natives, plants, public gardens. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:00 am
Manzanitas sure have a very interesting way of growing. A fabulous focal point in the gardens where they will grow.
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