Cotton lavender
Santolina chamaecyparissus
Ground coverPlacenta
Production
A tidy silver-leaved edging shrub that repels pests and shrugs off drought and poor soil. It goes woody fast, so shear it yearly and never cut into bare old wood.
Tolerances & traits
- Strata
- Ground cover
- Lifecycle
- Placenta
- Soil preference
- Sandy, Rocky
- Soil pH range
- 6 – 8.5
- Min. temperature
- -12°C
- Min. rainfall
- 300 mm/year
- Wind tolerance
- High
- Frost tolerance
- Medium
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Irrigation needed
- Low
How to manage it
Silver aromatic pest-repellent edging plant for hot dry sites; shear lightly after flowering to keep it compact.
Watch out for
Goes woody and gappy with age; never cut back into bare old wood as it won't resprout. Mildly toxic if ingested in quantity - keep away from livestock.
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