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| 8/6/10, soft upright spikes, low in front of the abelia |
Teucrium
chamaedrysThis is a low edger with soft rosy spiked blooms in mid summer. It's a good mounder at the front of the border.
I planted it in the Birch Garden, and it kind of fades around the glossy abelia and the big fluffy nepeta next to it. Not a showy plant, but a good filler.
It likes very dry soil.
Pinch (or shear if it gets leggy) after flowering. Hard shearing to ground once a year helps rejuvenate this.
As of 2012 this has been overtaken by the nepeta next to it. I moved some of it to a spot beneath the paper birch tree, behind the stone bench, but it hasn't done much there.
I might take it all out.
Update 2013: this is an ex-plant. It got overwhelmed by nearby plants and never did well.
