cotton lavender
lavender-cotton
santolina chamaecyparissus latin

Like cotton lavender, but with green foliage and lemon flowers.

Cotton Lavender has many potential uses.

Cotton lavender needs a dry sunny situation in light soil to ensure that it ripens fully and is thus better able to withstand cold.

Nor is it closely related to either cotton or lavender, despite its common name "cotton lavender".

Use crushed cotton lavender leaves, dried, as part of a mixture to prevent moths invading clothes and linen.

A strongly aromatic, somewhat bitter-tasting plant, cotton lavender is not a lavender at all, but a member of the daisy family.

Cotton lavender sweetbag (against moths)

Bowl-like concrete planters enhance such herbs as wallflowers, followed by chamomile, mignonette, cotton lavender, and dill or fennel for height.

S. incana (cotton lavender, lavender cotton) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the western and central Mediterranean.

Other significant introductions included Viola 'Bowles' Black', cotton lavender 'Edward Bowles' (Santolina pinnata subsp.

Marigolds, tansy, feverfew, golden marjoram and dill would all combine, in cultivation as well as colour; another mixture could be pinks, cotton lavender, blue rue, clary and borage.

Cotton lavender is a decorative garden plant for the silver or grey border and traditionally was one of the plants chosen for edging the geometrical beds of the Elizabethan knot gardens.

It is also worth exploring the shapes of herbal leaves, such as those of lovage and angelica; chives, parsley, cotton lavender and rue are some more with contrasting and arresting foliage outlines.

Many, many herbs are first-class in containers like these, and one can have the pleasure of a spring display, to be replaced by summer-flowering fragrant herbs, all with a permanent backbone of evergreens such as lavender, sweet bay, cotton lavender, or rosemary.

Little shrubs like Genista hispanica or Hebe 'Broughton Dome' make compact green boulder shapes which will contrast with the looser forms of Genista lydia - smothered in acid yellow blooms in early summer - and silvery cotton lavender,, santolina.

Formally clipped bay-trees trimmed into shapes as balls, pyramids or cones look superb outside front-doors or as eye-catchers on a terrace or patio; rosemary can serve the same purpose, and in a smaller way, so can rue, lavender, sage and cotton lavender.

Species tolerant of doorsteps that bake in daylong sun include gerbera, cosmos, zinnia, portulaca, Queen Anne's lace, lavender-cotton (Santolina), hybrid tea roses and smoke bush (Cotinus).

The larvae feed on the leaves Santolina chamaecyparissus.

Woody subshrubs like lavender and lavender cotton (Santolina chamaecyparissus) may need reshaping.

Removing flowering stems of woody subshrubs like lavender and lavender cotton (Santolina chamaecyparissus) will help plants maintain their shapes.

Santolina, Santolina chamaecyparissus, Santoline Argentee.

Tender herbs like rosemary, bay, lemon verbena (Aloysia triphylla) and lavender cotton (Santolina chamaecyparissus) can be moved indoors in winter and grown as houseplants.

Other species have since been found to be infected, Santolina chamaecyparissus (Lavender cotton) in Spain in 2004, Gerbera jamesonii in Italy 2006, and Aucklandia lappa in China in 2008.

I was particularly interested in the subtle differences in texture and shades of green in the mounded plants around the fountain: Plectranthus argentatus, right next to mounds of gray-green Santolina chamaecyparissus and a billowing sea of chalky green Centaurea cineraria.