This stoloniferous sub-shrub has an upright habit with arching stems that form a dense bushy habit with pubescent, silvery-grey shoots. It has oval aromatic leaves and the blue 2-lipped tube-shaped flowers appear in a raceme from spring to summer.

Hardiness zones 8 to 10

Teucrium fruticansis naturally found in southern Europe growing in coastal positions in well drained alkaline soils. It prefers an open sunny position and is salt spray and drought tolerant but frost tender.

Bush Germander is an attractive shrub that is grown as a filler plant in a shrub border or regularly clipped to form a low hedge. It is also used as foliage contrast plant in small or cottage gardens and establishes from cuttings in 2 to 3 years. It is salt tolerant and is used in coastal settings growing in gritty poor soil types.ID 1357

Teucrium(TOYK-ree-um) fruticans(FROO-ti-kănz)

Lamiaceae(lay-mee-AY-see-ee)
(Labiatae)
Mint Family