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Plant identification => Plant identification => Topic started by: hampan on April 03, 2017, 07:38:05 AM

Title: Did v well during 2017 snow and cold - ID'd as Teucrium fruticans
Post by: hampan on April 03, 2017, 07:38:05 AM

Can someone name this - flowered through the 2016-17 winter so I want more of it.
Thank you!

Title: Re: Did v well during 2017 snow and cold
Post by: JayB on April 03, 2017, 08:46:33 AM

It's hard to tell from that picture as it is a bit small on my screen.
Is the foliage kind of velvety and soft and does it give off kind of a musty smell? The foliage that is, not the flowers.

Title: Re: Did v well during 2017 snow and cold
Post by: hampan on April 03, 2017, 08:53:20 AM

I'll try and send a bigger picture.

Title: Re: Did v well during 2017 snow and cold
Post by: Alisdair on April 03, 2017, 11:40:31 AM

Looks like Teucrium fruticans; there are various forms, all good in mediterranean gardens, but they may vary in hardiness slightly. If you look through this forum's main thread on Teucriums (http://www.mgsforum.org/smf/index.php?topic=424) you'll see that some have been undamaged by two weeks of ice and snow, while others have suffered tip burn in -8 deg C of frost.

Title: Re: Did v well during 2017 snow and cold
Post by: hampan on April 03, 2017, 12:36:15 PM

Thanks so much.  That's exactly what it is. Ours flowered all winter even w the snow. I've ordered seed of Teucrium hircanicum from Chantal and after reading the Teucrium page you mentioned I wish I'd added T flavum as well.
pat

Title: Re: Did v well during 2017 snow and cold
Post by: Janet Ibbotson on April 03, 2017, 07:43:19 PM

Teucrium chamaedrys or wall germander gives good ground cover and doesn't seem to mind shade or some shade from pine trees - mine are evergreen with pinkish flowers.