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Mediterranean Labiates

Hello.

I really don't have much input in the area myself at the moment, but as
some of you know, I'm on a very limited income that means buying seeds
etc. largely excludes the cost of various information and so forth, so
I'm rather enthusiastic about many plants that I don't really know a lot
about, and the fine points of taxonomy do go beyond the scope of my
ability and interest.

I'd be delighted to hear more about Mediteranean plants of the family
Labiatae, for one; any information about them really. I think there's a
lot of expanding their zone ratings to be done for one thing, but I sort
of get a feeling there's a general lack of applying the sort of tastes
that go on with other plants. That suits me fine personally, because I'm
not that aesthetic about gardening myself, but it's odd that neither
catalogs nor customers seem to be doing the usual jumping for joy at the
possibilities having gotten out of the blues and whites with Nepetas or
Scuttelarias that would probably be a more common complaint were they
other popular genuses.

Is anyone actually growing the pink Nepeta tuberosa? Is it behaving any
differently than the blue forms the species? Is anyone growing a yellow
flowered Nepeta? Are any not yellow, white, pink or blue? Is anyone
aware of a Sideritis that isn't yellow? Has anyone ever actually seen a
Lamium moschatum that has the white border around the leaf like the
photo in Polunin's book? New trends in Lamium? Is anyone growing the
spiniest of Stachyses? Just how many flower colors can I expect out of
the genus Marrubium? Who'd like to color me green with envy with glowing
descriptions of their Turkish Salvias? Etc, Etc.. Please do tell!

Great Gardening to All,

Robert Carl //Mint Family Collector
ChroniAbaloni@webtv.net
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