Marrubium cylleneum

We received the seed for this extremely lovely aromatic horehound as Marrubium cylleneum, but the name is suspect as it's certainly a much prettier version than any other plants we've seen with the same name. Reliably perennial and needing NO SUMMER WATER, it makes a perfect edging or foreground plant for a dry garden and is especially useful for dressing up the woody lower branches of many drought tolerant shrubs. From 4” to 12” tall in part shade and about 12” across, its highly attractive and dense sage green quilted foliage draws you in with a sort of 3-D effect and the slender white edging of each individual leaf seem to make it stand out. Whorls of small lavender flowers appear in leaf axils in mid-Summer. Trouble free, it attracts lots of friendly and interesting bugs!

Annie