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Santolina rosmarinifolia
Green Lavender Cotton
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Uses: Hardy ornamental, suitable for areas of low maintenance. Can be used as a background shrub in mixed plantings, or on wide roadside verges, road batters and wide median strips for weed suppression and soil control. Responds well to pruning to maintain shape. Requires good drainage.
Unpleasant smelling flowers.

  • Height 0.3-0.6m
  • Spread 0.8-1m
  • Position
    • position-fullsun Full Sun
  • Family Asteraceae
  • Botanical Name Santolina rosmarinifolia
  • Common Name Green Lavender Cotton
  • Origin Portugal, S.W. Europe
  • Habit Rounded, Dense
  • Landscape Coastal footslopes, Footslopes, Plains, 2nd line coast
  • Soil Texture Loam, Sand
  • pH Acidic, Alkaline, Neutral
  • Tolerates Drought, Light frost
  • Supplementary Watering Minimal
  • Flower Colour Yellow
  • Flowering Time Summer
  • Flower Type Daisy
  • Purpose Ornamental, Erosion
  • Evergreen/Deciduous Evergreen
  • Form Low shrub (Up to 1.2m)