Teucrium scorodonia | Crispum Marginatum Chronicle Books Loved by bees and pollinators

Loved by bees and pollinators

Removing spent flowers regularly will encourage new flowers

Alstroemerias flower for many weeks from early summer until autumn and plants can produce up to eighty flowering stems per year so are extremely popular in our cutting garden as well as with our Farmer friends

We have them planted under deciduous trees and find that they enjoy this position

Butterflies also flock to this plant

Teucrium scorodonia | Crispum Marginatum Chronicle Books Loved by bees and pollinatorsTeucrium scorodonia Crispum Marginatum also known as woodland sage or woodland germander spreads by rhizomes and is a mounding groundcover that has the most exquisitely ruffled leaves with a teeny touch of white on the edges. This plant almost looks like it belongs in the depths of the ocean, it is almost like sea coral! The edges actually look like they have been crimped. In summer it bears spikes of tiny charming lipped, cream to pale yellow green