Marrubium cylleneum
Mount Killini horehound
- Height × spread
- 0.46m × 0.5m
- Position
- Full sun
- Hardiness
- Colder than -20C (RHS H7)
- Flowers
- Summer
Availability
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About this plant
This is a perennial for hot and dry conditions where it makes a beautiful dome of foliage. The lovely crinkly, rounded, sage-green leaves have a texture that is likened by Beth Chatto to old velvet. It also has insignificant bobbly green flowers but, if you like foliage forms, it's perfection. It looks very like Ballota pseudodictamnus.
- Flower colour
- Green
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Dome
- Height
- 0.46m
- Spread
- 0.5m
- Flowers in
- Summer
- Evergreen
- Evergreen
- Garden style
- Rock garden, Gravel garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun
- Soil type
- Chalk, Gravelly soil, Poor soil, Sandy soil
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Well drained soil, Dry soil, Drought resistant
- Hardiness
- Colder than -20C (RHS H7)
- Borders & containers
- Borders and containers
- Use for
- Bee attraction
- Hazards
- No
Spring
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water in dry periods
Established plants in the ground can cope with 7-10 days of dryness, and shrubs often manage 2 to 3 weeks. Water one section of the garden thoroughly each day rather than a little everywhere. Check plants in pots more often, especially in hot weather.