Santolina magonica

Very drought tolerant, this is another fine plant which we imported from Olivier Filippi’s famous nursery in the south of France and brought back through Australian quarantine. It is highly favoured by Filippi in his popular book on Dry Climate Gardening. It makes a round evergreen shrub with leaves like little silver cotton wool buds. I haven’t seen it in flower yet but it has yellow buttons opening from lemon green buds. Happy in any sunny spot and takes the dry well. 50cm by 50cm.