Phlomis fruticosa
(Jerusalem Sage)
Family - Lamiaceae
Category - Shrub
Origin - Mediterranean
Year of Introduction - 1596
Season of Interest - Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
Hardiness - H4
Height - 90cm to 120cm
Location - The Pond Garden
Description: Small-sized Evergreen Shrub with a mounding habit. Aromatic, grey-green leaves are ovate to lanceolate in shape and have white, woolly undersides. Whorls of golden yellow, tubular flowers are produced from early through midsummer.
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Flower:
Whorls of golden yellow, tubular flowers are produced in June and July. There are usually one or two whorls per flowering stem.
Flower colour: Yellow
Flower shape: Tubular flowers in whorls
Flowering time: June, July
Foliage:
Aromatic, grey-green ovate to lanceolate leaves are covered in fine white hair on the undersides.
Foliage Senescence: Evergreen
Foliage Shape: Ovate to lanceolate
Propagation:
Seed, division or cuttings.
Cultivation:
Best in full sun in fertile, well drained soil.