often called the Easter Rose
and plant while the tree is young
or in a gravel garden with agaves and other dry-country characters
use this grass to bring movement and light to the places few grasses will grow: a woodland edge
Habit is vigorously upright yet compact
Teucrium fruticans Landscaper Favorite often called the Easter RoseSilver 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,