Chieftain Manzanita! This is a fantastic choice for adding a touch of rugged beauty to your Prescott landscape, my friend. Imagine a low-spreading evergreen shrub, typically reaching just 18 to 24 inches tall but spreading a good 5 to 8 feet wide, creating a wonderful groundcover or accent around your native pines or rock features.
The Chieftain Manzanita boasts attractive, smooth, reddish-caramel bark and rounded, deep green leaves that retain their color all year long, even through Arizona's winters. In the spring, you'll be treated to delicate clusters of petite, pinkish-white, urn-shaped flowers that are a delight to see up close. This hardy plant thrives in full sun here in Prescott and is quite drought-tolerant once it's established, making it perfect for our drier climate. Plus, deer tend to leave it alone!
To give your Chieftain Manzanita the best start in our well-draining soils, incorporate some Watters Premium Mulch when planting to help with initial moisture retention. Once established, it's quite self-sufficient and doesn't need a lot of extra watering. Our native soils are just what it prefer, so hold off on adding too much in the way of amendments. You won't need to fertilize this beauty either; it thrives in our natural conditions. This low-maintenance, attractive shrub will bring year-round texture and subtle beauty to your garden.
