Phlomis italica plant Flower spikes have heavily laden

Flower spikes have heavily laden dark plummy coloured tubular flowers with white throats from early summer

although ours often will start flowering mid spring

The plants form a vase-shaped clump up to about 60cm high by about 80cm wide and the branches laden with their pretty flowers on wand-like stems arch outwards laden with flowers

Remove flowers as they fade to encourage more

Phlomis italica plant Flower spikes have heavily ladenPhlomis italica also known as woolly sage is a striking foliage perennial or small shrub that has narrow felted wooly, grey green, upstanding leaves. The hooded flowers are a beautiful lilac pink almost a marshmallow pink, that are carried in whorls around the stems in the leaf axils in late summer, although ours often will start flowering mid spring. Plants will thrive in a sunny, sheltered site, in well drained soil, plants will also cope with a