May 13—Ceanothus is a diverse group of shrubs called by the common nicknames "Wild lilac" and "California lilac", since the majority of species are native to California. It's easy to find a spot for ...

Description: Ceanothus is a genus of more than 50 species, mostly evergreen, ornamental, flowering shrubs. They are mainly native to California, though some are found in the East, the Northwest and ...

Manzanita (Arctostaphylos) and Ceanothus are two common plants found throughout California. There are approximately 60 species of Arctostaphylos, from prostrate forms to tree size. There are ...

Ceanothus, the wild lilac with varieties native to both California and Oregon, can be seen thriving along the roadside in dry and generally poor soil conditions. (Marci Degman/Special to the Argus) ...

In an evaluation, OSU horticulturist Neil Bell found freely blooming Ceanothus like 'Blue Jeans' to be drought-tolerant, cold hardy and resistant to pests and diseases. (Neil Bell) Life is hard for ...

THE farther one travels from Los Angeles, the better the chances of seeing California’s most ravishing native shrub, variously named backbrush, or snowbush, or pine mat, or whitethorn, or mountain ...

If Walt Whitman had lived in California, he might have written, "When ceanothus last in the dooryard bloom'd," for in California, it is the ceanothus that marks the "ever-returning spring." A native ...

Water needs: Water regularly the first year to establish the plant, then drought-tolerant. Snapshot: Ceanothus, also known as California lilac, is the envy of every garden for many different reasons.

More blooms, less work.

My partner and I are planning to replant a small area of our garden in the autumn in which the most prominent shrub is a ceanothus – about 8ft tall, with a wide canopy, and three "trunks" each thicker ...