Limonium minutum

A bun-forming species from the Iberian peninsula with tightly packed rosettes of small, dark green, spoon shaped leaves and producing a thicket of finely branched flower stems bearing many tiny, pale lavender, starry flowers all summer long. A quick hair cut in autumn to remove the flowering stems returns the plant to its sculpted form and makes sure new winter growth will receive plenty of sunlight. Almost indestructible, it is at home in any well drained sunny site and is perfect for planting between loose paving or a cracks in walls where it will self seed gently for that cottage garden look and will be content with the reflected heat. Unfortunately deeply penetrating roots make it completely useless for pots.

A densely tufted little statice native to the limestone sea cliffs of Southeastern France with cushion like masses of closely packed tiny rosettes sprouting from a woody rootstock and sending up numerous short spikes of violet statice flowers. ZONE 5