Santolina virens | Green Lavender Cotton | Groundcover
Santolina virens belongs to the plant family ASTERACEĈ and Genus Santolina This Groundcover prefers Dry soil , a pH which can apply to most normal garden soil conditions, . All plants need light to allow the photosynthesis process of converting carbon dioxide to growth sugars to take place. Some plants need more sun-light than others. For this plant those sunlight conditions are well described as … Various
We are often asked about plants for humming bird attraction. Unfortunately Santolina virens does not attract these beautiful hummingbird, sunbird or nectar feeding varieties of garden birds
Impressive Autumn foliage display is not shown by Santolina virens so look for an alternative plant for pleasing Fall leaf properties
Santolina virens green lavender cotton is not known as a butterfly attracting plant
Almost all plants grown in gardens need to be fed using fertilzer in order to see them at their best. For this plant the suggested fertilizer program would be based upon … Typical mix of: 3 parts Nitrogen (N), 2 parts Phosphorous (P) and 3 parts Potassium (K for Latin name Kalium).
Santolina virens can survive cold winters where the average annual low is -10° Fahrenheit. It prefers dry soils. Green lavender cotton is drought tolerant.
Santolina virens will under good growing conditions survive and prosper between 3 and10 years.
Santolina virens is a perennial.
This specimen plant will normally never grow higher than 1' 6" feet will have an overall spread somewhere between 3' and 3'
The Complete Botanica published by Crescent Bloom
"Xeriscape Gardening: Water Conservation for the American Landscape", Connie Lockhart Ellefson, Thomas L. Stephens, and Douglas Welsh, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, 1992.