Ray Hartman California Lilac
Ceanothus ‘Ray Hartman’ · an upright blue California lilac
A fast, easy evergreen California lilac with glossy dark leaves and spikes of blue flowers from late winter into spring, grown as a big shrub, screen or small tree. It takes clay and dry soil and needs little or no summer water once established. Protect young plants from deer, which love it.
- Mature size
- 18 × 12 ft
- 5.5 × 3.5 m, tall × wide
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Dry
- Blooms
- Mar–May
Ray Hartman California Lilac at its mature size
A mature Ray Hartman California Lilac grows 12 to 30 feet tall and 5 to 20 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: San Marcos Growers, Calscape.
Growing Ray Hartman California Lilac
- Grows well in
- California.
- Good for
- Privacy screen, drought tolerant, and pollinators
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Garden hybrid (California natives)
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Ray Hartman California Lilac, that’s about 12 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Ray Hartman California Lilac in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other california lilacs
All drawn to the same scale.