Re: two apparently hard to find plants
Sean O'Hara wrote:
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> colored flowers! Wonderful! The next is a wooly, gray thing called
> Siditis? (or Sidites?). It looks like a cross between a Phlomis and a
> Stachys - very nice. We've seen it around town but it is apparently
> nowhere to be found at the moment. We saw a plant in flower - above a nice
> tidy mound of the wooly foliage were thin, tall, branches spikes that were
> abruptly green as they leave the tomentose foliage, with widely spaced
> clumps of yellow-green flowers. Quite nice!!
Hi Sean,
Sound like siderites cypri-something(?). I have one that I picked
up from Cal Flora in Santa Rosa last year, it is something that
they regularly propagate. You might give them a call to see if
they have any in stock right now.
Good luck,
-- Irene Kuffel,
Napa.
