Santolina - Cotton Lavender 140mm

Add a touch of silvery softness and aromatic charm to your garden with Santolina Lavender Cotton. This compact evergreen shrub features finely textured, silvery-grey foliage that looks like soft cotton, creating a striking contrast in mixed borders, rockeries, or low hedges. In summer, it produces small, bright yellow button flowers that attract beneficial insects, enhancing your garden's ecosystem. Originating from the Mediterranean, Santolina is drought-tolerant and thrives in full sun with well-drained soil, making it perfect for low-maintenance gardens.

Key Features:

• Soft, aromatic, silver-grey foliage year-round
• Compact size, about 40–50 cm tall and wide
• Bright summer yellow button flowers attract pollinators
• Excellent drought tolerance once established
• Ideal for rockeries, borders, and low hedges

Care Tips:

• Plant in full sun and well-drained soil
• Water sparingly after establishment
• Prune after flowering to maintain shape and encourage growth

Dimensions: Approximately 40-50cm high × 40-50cm wide

Fun fact: Santolina's aromatic foliage was once used to repel moths and insects in linen closets!