Many people have asked me about this name for the clinic. The truth is, it came to me while I was sleeping and then it stuck around. Manzanitas are beautiful trees and shrubs native to the California coastal ranges and foothills. I have grown up loving their amazing radiant reddish wood that is in a constant state of evolution and transition, their incredibly graceful twisty turny dancing branches, laughing leaves and their scented white and pink blossoms.