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  • Syringa
  • Teucrium
    • marum   CAG01680

      (Cat thyme)
      Teucrium marum
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A small, very silver, pungently aromatic sub-shrub from the western Mediterranean, happiest in exposed dry soil and perfect for edging or parterre. Many short wands of soft magenta, two lipped flowers lend the stiffly twigged mounds, clothed in tiny, silver, rhomboidal leaves, a dreamy quality during late spring.

      Easily grown in any well drained sunny site. Summer irrigation unnecessary.
      A quick annual tidy up after flowering, to remove the spent stems, keeps it looking attractive over summer. Older plants can be cut back to the point of new basal growth in late winter to rejuvenate them.

      As its common name infers it is often adored by feline denizens of the garden, boon or bane depending on you point of view, and their wallowing and mauling can leave it a little worse for wear but seldom proves fatal.

  • Tradescantia
    • (Andersoniana Group) ‘Sweet Kate’   CAG01475

      (Spiderwort)
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A choice cultivar grown as much for the clumps of deeply channelled, linear, citron coloured foliage as the satiny, three petalled, royal purple flowers that sit upon it. The perfect companion for modern brightly coloured Heuchera, in regions where they grow well, for maximum foliage fantasy.

      Needs protection from heat and exposure to look its best but is easily grown in any reasonably drained soil or in a pot capable of housing its large fleshy root system.

      Soundly perennial and winter dormant.

  • Tropaeolum
    • azureum   CAG02070

      (Blue Nasturtium)
      Tropaeolum azureum
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A tuberous species sending up twining hair-like stems, anchoring themselves to any available support with prehensile, dark green, 5 lobed, starfish leaves. Almost unnoticed amongst the foliage of a supporting shrub until the small but very numerous, white throated, blue-purple, typical Nasturtium shaped flowers are produced during cool spring weather.

      Adapted to a winter rainfall climate it promptly returns to a state of hibernation with the onset of summer heat, re-emerging ever more vigorously once the cooler temperatures and moisture of winter prevail. Truly xeric, demanding of summer dryness and once established will happily remain dormant for several years in the absence of rainfall.

      Easily grown in very well drained soil or a deep pot of gravel. Likely to be difficult on the east coast without protection from the worst weather.

  • Tulbaghia
  • Verbascum

    (Mulleins)
    Scrophulariaceae

    • phoeniceum   CAG01425

      (Purple mullein)
      Verbascum phoeniceum
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      (Purple mullein) An evergreen perennial or biennial, that sometimes self seeds nicely around the garden without being a nuisance. Tall slender stems, of pink, white or purple, five petalled flowers, each centred with purple hairy stamens, are produced throughout the warmer months, above the green ground hugging rosettes.
      For well drained soil in sun.

      Used most effectively (in my opinion) when clones of a single form are scattered sparsely among shorter plants, where the tall stems can provide a dramatic vertical accent while not dominating the scene. Also equally at home in wild type gardens or meadow plantings.

  • Verbena
    • x hybrida ‘Homestead Purple’   CAG00709
      Verbena x hybrida ‘Homestead Purple’
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      Singularly outstanding.

      From a dense mat of dark green, hairy, scalloped leaves on slender, rooting stems, is borne, throughout the warmer months, an endless profusion of stunningly vibrant, purple blooms in circular clusters.

      The hybrid Verbena to which all others fail to measure up. It's vigour and propensity for producing new buds in each flower cluster, greatly extending its lifespan, make it one of the highest performance perennials in any garden. Dig bits up in early spring and plant them everywhere.

      Remove spent stems in autumn to make way for the robust winter and spring vegetative growth from which next seasons flowering growth will extend.

      Relatively tolerant of dry conditions but needs a modicum of summer water to flower well. For best performance avoid thick layers of mulch which prevent new root production from the trailing stems.

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