Tag: flowers

  • Ceratostigma plumbaginoides

    Ceratostigma plumbaginoides

    Unsung hero of the dry garden. Ceratostigma plumbaginoides – the “blue-flowered leadwort” – is a native from Western China. It grows and grows, unfettered by heat or drought, and blooms from June through September in a very beautiful bright blue over somber green leaves. The leaves may also turn red in the fall. I had…

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  • Teucrium – Germander

    Teucrium – Germander

    Teucrium, also known as “germander”, is a large plant genus with about 250 species of flowering perennials and shrubs worldwide. Most of them are native to the Mediterranean region and thus are pretty heat- and drought-tolerant while also being frost hardy to -10℃ or more. They are simple to cultivate, have no great demands besides…

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  • Lychnis coronaria

    Lychnis coronaria

    The friendly and well-behaved sister of Silene latifolia, Lychnis coronaria is found in the wild anywhere between Italy and the Himalayas. It grows on rocky slopes and in dappled woods and copses and in our Mediterranean garden it tolerates sun, heat and drought quite well. Along with the three bright pink plants I put in…

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  • Asphodeline lutea

    Asphodeline lutea

    Asphodeline lutea is a native of the Central and Eastern Mediterranean region as well as Northern Africa, growing in grassy meadows and in the Garrigue or Macchia. It’s an easy-to-grow plant, a sunlover, and very drought-tolerant (Filippi code de secheresse of 5) – indeed I think I killed one this summer by watering it… Like most…

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  • Anisodontea

    Anisodontea

    Anisodontea or Cape Mallow is another plant I would never have thought of planting myself but which I had grown rather fond of. My mother gave it to me 2021. It had been grown from a cutting as an indoor plant in cold Ulm, Germany. When we came here I planted it in the garden,…

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  • Cistus

    Cistus

    Cistus, along with Helianthemum, Halimium and Tuberaria, are members of the rock rose family. They are native perennials of the Mediterranean, North African and Middle Eastern regions. These small evergreen shrubs can be found all over the garrigue here which is what convinced me to plant them in our garden. They bloom mostly in April…

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