Louis Edmunds Baker's Manzanita, Arctostaphylos bakeri 'Louis Edmunds'

About Louis Edmunds Baker's Manzanita (Arctostaphylos bakeri 'Louis Edmunds') 33 Nurseries Carry This Plant

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Horticultural selection from Arctostaphylos bakeri ssp. bakerii. Tolerates a wide variety of soils, but is fairly intolerant of summer water or added fertilizer. Louis Edmunds manzanita brings the form and characteristics of a large manzanita tree in a compact form much more suited to smaller gardens and landscapes. This shrub grows to a height and spread of 6 to 8 foot, with an upright form and evergreen foliage. Attractive purple bark provides year-round beauty, supplemented by pink flowers in the spring. This manzanita has gray-green foliage that contrasts beautifully with the deep purple bark. This adaptable specimen plant is known to be garden tolerant, able to grow in heavy clay soils or serpentinite, and also tolerant of loam or even decomposed granite. Adorned with pink flowers in spring, it's a delight to the hummingbirds and a fabulous addition to any landscape.

Horticultural selection A. bakeri: origin = north coast, selected by Louis Edmunds intro saratoga Horticultural Foundation 1962. Tolerates almost any soil type. Prefers sun in coastal sites, and sun or part shade in inland sites. Selected from sonoma County by saratoga Horticultural Foundation.

Thanks to Moosa Creek Nursery and the Theodore Payne Foundation for sharing information about this plant

Plant Description

Plant Type

Shrub

Size

6 - 8 ft tall
4 - 6 ft wide

Form

Upright

Growth Rate

slow

Dormancy

Evergreen

Flower Color

Pink

Flowering Season

Spring

Wildlife Supported

Various birds are attracted to the fruits
Bird gardens

Landscaping Information

Sun

Full Sun, Part shade

Moisture

Low

Nurseries

Carried by 33

Ease of Care

Moderately Easy

Cold Tolerance

Soil Drainage

Fast, Medium, Slow

Soil Description

Tolerates a wide variety of soils. Tolerates Serpentine Soil

Common uses

Hedges, Bird Gardens, Hummingbird Gardens, Deer Resistant, Bee Gardens

Companion Plants

Plant with other north coast natives such as California Barberry (Berberis pinnata), Pt. Reyes Ceanothus (Ceanothus gloriosus), Giant Chinquapin (Chrysolepis chrysophylla), Gowan Cypress (Hespercyparis goveniana) or Monterey Cypress (Hesperocyparis macrocarpa), Western Labrador Tea (Rhododendron columbianum), Redflower Currant (Ribes sanguineum), and California Huckleberry (Vaccinum ovatum).

Site Characteristics

Alternative Names

Common Names: Luis Edumunds Manzanita

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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links: Jepson eFlora Taxon Page CalPhotos Wikipedia Calflora

Louis Edmunds Baker's Manzanita

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