Grosso Lavender is one of the most popular French hybrids due to its incredible vigor, abundance of flower spikes, and sheer size of the flowers. Also known as the “fat lavender” due to its exceptionally large flower spikes, Grosso is valued for its intense fragrance and is especially valuable in making essential oils, soaps and lotions.
A rare and especially unique citrus from Japan, Sanbokan is a difficult one to classify. It peels like a mandarin, has skin like a grapefruit but with a pronounced nipple, and the flavor is certainly sour and bitter but also richly sweet.
Ana Luisa Lavender is unique for it’s silver gray foliage that appears nearly white at times! Fragrant bluish purple flowers on long tapered spikes in summer stand out in great contrast to the bright foliage.
One of our favorite spillers for walls or terraces, Trailing Irene Rosemary grows only 6 inches or so high but spreads up to 6 feet! Makes a lovely evergreen spiller over a wall or rock, or can be grown as a ground cover under your new fruit tree. Pairs especially well with figs and olives and suppresses any weeds that might try to pop up. Flowers are a beautiful light blue and cover the plant in spring.
The Sageleaf Rock Rose has everything we love about rock roses in a prostrate growing form making a perfect evergreen, drought tolerant ground cover.
Gotu Kola is a highly regarded and not often available herb from the parsley family. It is widely used in India and grows in parts of the Himalayas where the original yogis use it to improve meditation. It is used both in culinary dishes as well as herbal preparations and your closest herbalist friend can no doubt wax poetic about its many properties, uses and virtues.
A beautiful, fast growing and compact lavender selection, Munstead lavender produces spikes of deep lavender blossoms that look spectacular against the silvery foliage. Munstead is also the preferred English lavender for cooking and baking due to its extremely aromatic flowers. It turns out you can have a Mediterranean landscape and eat it too!
An excellent low growing selection of rosemary with a mounding habit to around 3 feet tall and 6 feet wide. Bright blue flowers that emerge in late winter are one of the best attributes of Mozart! Very tough and super aromatic. Selected by the late nurseryman Ed Carman of Carman’s Nursery in Gilroy, CA. Nancy is still running the nursery down there and it’s fantastic! Go check them out.
