Late winter and early spring bring the first sign of life: small greenish-yellow flowers clustered along the bare twigs before the leaves unfold
and the kinship shows in the flowers
less-common native coneflower for the gardener with the damp ground to suit them
often called the Easter Rose
use this grass to bring movement and light to the places few grasses will grow: a woodland edge
Teucrium fruticans Landscaper Favorite Late winter and early springSilver germander is a Mediterranean evergreen grown above all for foliage. Teucrium fruticans wears small, aromatic, gray green leaves backed in silvery white felt, on pale, white woolly stems, so the whole shrub reads as a soft silver mound that lights a hot, sunny border and cools the greens around it. A member of the mint family, Lamiaceae, the plant carries the square stems and aromatic foliage of that clan. Through much of the growing season,