COMPACT CISTUSES You mentioned recently “compact” varieties of sun-loving shrubs, including cistuses, which I love but which quickly become too vigorous in my small (but very sunny) garden ...

But it’s the later introduction, Cistus laurifolius, that distinguished itself as being one of three sorts that survived the great frost that killed nearly all the cistuses at Kew in 1895.

But it’s the later introduction, Cistus laurifolius, that distinguished itself as being one of three sorts that survived the great frost that killed nearly all the cistuses at Kew in 1895. For ...

Chatto set about the task in hand with gusto, first transforming a sun-baked area by the house into a Mediterranean garden filled with cistuses, santolinas, hebes, yuccas, junipers and grasses.

The aroma of cistuses instantly conjures up the Mediterranean so if you have a great holiday somewhere growing a plant from your destination may conjure up happy memories.

“The cistuses of the garrigue, the ceanothuses that cover the hillsides of California or the capers that billow down Sicilian cliffs quite simply cannot tolerate the combination of heat and ...

The cistuses and sages have finished, lavenders are passing their peak and catmint, cut down around mid-July, is resting. But thankfully, on to centre stage comes perovskia, the last and tallest ...