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 ...

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 ...

Ceanothus, a beautiful native common to the slopes of the Point Reyes peninsula and elsewhere in coastal California, comes in many forms suitable for domestic gardens. I can think of no other genus ...

Not having a ceanothus in the garden would be unthinkable, yet they are not the most accommodating of plants. For one thing, they die. Regularly described as “short-lived”, they turn up their toes and ...