Where researchers found a new species of California manzanita Scientists estimate there are only 300-700 of the new manzanita shrubs What is endangering the new manzanita shrub California scientists ...

Manzanita Shrubs are Starting to Bloom this Month in the foothill areas of the Cleveland National Forest. The various manzanitas, characterized by smooth, reddish bark and tough, leathery leaves, bear ...

Actually, there aren’t any shrubs that really require trimming. They get by without it in the wild, after all. As Alan Titchmarsh notes in “How to Garden: Flowering Shrubs,” “Many gardeners struggle ...

Researchers found a new species of California manzanita. Scientists estimate there are only 300-700 of the new manzanita shrubs. Find out what is endangering the new manzanita shrub. California ...

The diminutive blossoms of the manzanita are a welcome source of food for native pollinators this time of year. Since it is one of the first plants to bloom, the urn-shaped flowers draw scores of ...

The saga of the Franciscan manzanita (Arctostaphylos franciscana), a native shrub thought extinct in the wild until its recent discovery at the Presidio, begins with the remarkable Alice Eastwood.

In the foothills of the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains, one native shrub stands out from all the rest. It is commonly called manzanita, but the name covers many different species of Arctostaphylos ...

Bumblebees and manzanita. What a perfect combination in the early spring garden. When manzanita blooms, bumblebees buzz the flowers. Bumblebees are important pollinators for early blooming fruit trees ...

After the chance discovery of a Franciscan manzanita, the rare plant was carefully relocated to a secret location in San Francisco’s Presidio. Can it survive in the wild? One October evening 10 years ...

In the foothills of the northern Sierra Nevada, one native shrub stands out from all the rest. It is commonly called manzanita, but the name covers many different species of Arctostaphylos that make ...

A lowly shrub in San Francisco’s Presidio is getting some help from high up, after the federal government on Wednesday placed the nearly extinct Franciscan Manzanita on its Endangered List. Up until a ...

California scientists discovered a new species of manzanita, believed to grow only in places along the state’s south-central coast. And unlike its sister shrubs, its bark is gray instead of red, its ...