Victoria Ceanothus is one of the most popular and widely planted Ceanothus varieties. It is an upright grower, growing 6-8 feet high. It has slightly wider glossy leaves than many cultivated Ceanothus varieties and makes an excellent windbreak or hedge. Like all Ceanothus species the bees absolutely love its early summer flowers.
Ceanothus Concha is one of the oldest cultivated Ceanothus hybrids and still remains a favorite. Graceful arching branches explode with dark blue blossoms that perfume the air and feed the bees.
Dark Star is one of our favorite Ceanothus. Compact leaves and gorgeous displays of incredibly fragrant flowers make a wonderful evergreen screen or privacy hedge and can also be used as a drought tolerant nitrogen fixing shrub in areas with poor soil or little to no summer rainfall. Like most Ceanothus, it needs zero summer water once established making it an ideal candidate for xeriscaping. Also deer resistant.
A wonderful and easy manzanita for the Northwest, Sentinel is tolerant of both garden conditions and dry rocky soil, and is incredibly hardy and disease resistant! Fast growing to about 7′ tall by 5′ wide, the leaves are held perpendicular to the stems to reduce moisture loss but it also gives this shrub a fantastic texture! Bark is exfoliating and gorgeous, becoming deep mahogany red in time.
