Giant Gray Germander (Teucrium)

Name: Giant Gray Germander (Teucrium)
Brand: High Country Gardens
SKU: 94622P
Price: 8.99 USD
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Teucrium cussonii

SKU: 94622P

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Overview

Giant Gray Germander will dazzle you with its size. It forms a large silver-gray mat of evergreen foliage and blooms in late spring- early summer with fragrant pink flowers. This is a superb groundcover for tough sites and has exceptional heat and cold tolerance. Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric).

key features

Botanical Name

Teucrium cussonii

Advantages

Bee Friendly, Deer Resistant, Rabbit Resistant, Groundcover, Fragrant, Evergreen

Growing Zones

Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8, Zone 9, Zone 10

Light Requirements

Full Sun

Soil Moisture

Very Waterwise

Mature Height

3-4" tall

Mature Spread

30-36" wide

Bloom Time

Late spring to early summer

SKU

94622P

Description

3-4" tall x 30-36" wide. What an amazing groundcover! After planting it into my garden, I've marveled how this vigorous plant grows to form a silver-gray, evergreen blanket of fine textured foliage, cascading down the slope it's plant on. It blooms in late spring-early summer with sweetly fragrant pink flowers held just above the foliage. Extremely heat and cold tolerant, it's a choice groundcover for the West, from Tucson to Boise, Denver to Reno and beyond.

Planting Care

Teucrium (Germander) is a huge family of perennials, herbs and shrubs found world-wide, with the highest concentration of species in the Mediterranean region of Europe and Northern Africa.

Preferred growing conditions:

Plant in sandy or gravel soils, although many species can adapt to well drained loam soils; avoid clay.
Most species are best positioned in a full sun location.
Mulch with gravel or pine needles in dry Western climates. Leave un-mulched in moister climates.
Water regularly the first growing season to establish the plant. Thereafter, only occasional deep watering is needed, when conditions are dry in the heat of summer.
Deadhead the flowers when blooming is finished. Groundcover Teucrium chaemadrys 'Prostratum,' when used as a lawn substitute, can be mowed to deadhead the flower spikes.
Fertilize lightly in the fall with Yum Yum Mix.

Special comments:

Many Teucrium species are evergreen and shouldn't be cut back in the spring. But in late fall, rake off brown tree leaves and other fall debris to keep plants clean and foliage healthy over the winter. In spring, winter killed tips can be sheared off.
Teucrium chaemadrys and T. chaemadrys 'Prostratum' are a zone more cold hardy in dry winter Western climates than in the moist Eastern US.

Giant Gray Germander (Teucrium)

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