Germander, Teucrium chamaedrys | DALLAS GARDEN BUZZ
August 1, 2024
Germander Upright
In case you’re considering one other choice to boxwood, think about these phrases from Cyrus Hyde, the late yard herb folklorist and founding father of Appropriately-Sweep Herb Farm in New Jersey. He referred to germander as “poor man’s topic”. Why then, has it not acquired additional recognition on the earth of herbs?
Even our first president, George Washington was such an admirer of germander that it was planted at his Mount Vernon, Virginia property. However sadly, it appears to have pale from view till not too method again when yard providers started that options lesser acknowledged herbs alongside the extra fascinating purchaser favorites. Fortuitously, it was a clever willpower with germander discovering its place as an ornamental evergreen border plant and as one other choice to boxwood contained in the beloved knot-garden design.
Germander ‘Upright’ surrounding the youngsters’s statue contained in the Edible Panorama at Raincatcher’s Yard
Germander able to be planted at Linda’s
Germander thriving in MG’s Patty Brewer’s Yard.
Germander is a Mediterranean native contained in the mint household (Lamiaceae) with small, darkish inexperienced scalloped leaves and a gentle garlic-spice aroma. It’s a hardy perennial and evergreen, holding its tidy look all 12 months prolonged. In early summer season season whorls of purple-pink flowers seem. Bees have an curiosity throughout the tiny flowers.
Develop it:
*House vegetation 2 ft aside and a minimal of three ft away from companion vegetation.
*Germander prefers full to partial photograph voltaic and well-drained soils.
*Observe an regularly watering schedule to ascertain, then reduce to deal with correctly being.
*Fertilize evenly with an all-purpose pure fertilizer a few events a yr.
*Pruning right after bloom will assist to resume the vegetation quicker.
Germander with single stem gerbera daisies gently nestled contained in the shiny inexperienced foliage
Linda Alexander, Dallas County Grasp Gardener Class of 2008
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August 1, 2024 Germander Upright In case you‘re considering one other choice to boxwood, think about these phrases from Cyrus Hyde, the late yard herb folklorist and founding father of Appropriately-Sweep Herb Farm in New Jersey. He referred to germander as “poor man’s topic”. Why then, has it not acquired…