Conradina canescens 'Gray Mound' Brookgreen Gardens so the whole shrub seems

so the whole shrub seems dappled with light even before the flowers open

so the tree carries color without depending on the usual autumn display

The species ranges across the southeastern coastal plain and Piedmont

pond margins

almost orchid-like poise

Conradina canescens 'Gray Mound' Brookgreen Gardens so the whole shrub seemsConradina canescens 'Gray Mound' is a silver leaved selection of the false rosemary that grows wild on the deep, pine fringed sands of the northern Gulf Coast, in Alabama, Mississippi, and the Florida panhandle, where the species once mingled with sea oats and longleaf pine. A member of the mint family, this aromatic shrub carries soft, needle like foliage in a ghostly silver gray, and from spring into early summer, sometimes again in the cool of