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  • Teucrium
    • marum   CAG01680

      (Cat thyme)
      Height25cmWidth40cmFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterLLightFull Sun
      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.

  • Thymus
  • Tropaeolum
    • azureum   CAG02070

      (Blue Nasturtium)
      Height2mWidth60cmFlowering SeasonSpringWaterLLightSun
      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.

    • tricolor   CAG02341
      Height2mWidth2mFlowering SeasonSpringWaterLLightSun
      Tropaeolum tricolor
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      The hair-like stems of this tuberous, Chilean climber, clamber their way through and over shrubs or other surrounding vegetation. Clasping it's prehensile leaves delicately around twigs and branches it scales to a high and sunny vantage and there displays it's small but abundant tricolour blooms, each yellow flower peeping out from the green ruff of it's long spurred red hat.

      A winter grower it retreats to the cool sanctuary of it's underground tuber once temperatures climb much above 30℃, usually in late spring or early summer, and there comfortably waits out heat and drought until coolness and moisture entice it forth once more the following year.

      Demanding only of excellent drainage and summer dryness, any loose soil, sand or gravel will do but not clay, preferably under a deciduous shrub. Otherwise a pot of well drained potting mix kept barely moist and out of the sun over summer will be quite to it's liking.

  • Tulbaghia
  • Verbascum

    (Mulleins)
    Scrophulariaceae

    • creticum   CAG01015
      Height1.2mWidth40cmFlowering SeasonSp - AuWaterL - MLightSun
      Verbascum creticum
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      An unusual, annual Verbascum, from the island of Crete, as the specific epithet implies. The plant initially consists of a quick growing rosette, upto 40cm across, of somewhat glaucous, wavy margined, highly textured, arrow shape leaves. At any time, from spring through to autumn, tall spires, bearing five petalled flowers, the largest we have seen on any Verbascum, are produced. Each flower is neatly divided in half, the top being custard yellow, the bottom half paler cream, the upper petals in addition, carry a pair of large burgundy eyes, that appear to be stenciled on.
      Should self seed in well drained soil.
      Very tough.

    • phoeniceum   CAG01425

      (Purple mullein)
      Height1.2mWidth45cmFlowering SeasonSp - AuWaterM - LLightSun
      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.

  • Yucca
    • brevifolia   CAG01987

      (Joshua tree)
      Height8mWidth6mFlowering SeasonSpringWaterLLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      As seen on TV and so synonymous with the wild west and deserts in general to perhaps be considered little more than a cliché among those unfamiliar with its grandeur and natural habitat in the Mojave Desert.

      Rigid, blue-green, lance-like leaves encircle a thick trunk, becoming bare and fissured with age, eventually branching to form a tree like canopy increasing in splendour with passing centuries to appear prehistoric or alien-like. In maturity dense panicles of creamy-white flowers are borne from the tips of its branches.

      Seemingly quite growable given rapidly draining, lean soil and the occasional drink. The indulgent conditions of cultivation should see a decent sized specimen within a lifetime though with a large root system it is likely to amount to no more than a bonsai if kept potted too long. We'll collaborate success stories in a few decades.

      Ultimately hardy to heat, cold and drought, if it dies you smothered a family heirloom with inappropriate love.

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