Jul 18, 2020
Plant of the Day
Saturday 18 July 2020
In the Sky Meadow at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden Hyde Hall, Essex, it was great to see the sprays composed of the tiny flowers of Limonium platyphyllum (sea lavender, broad-leaved statice). This rosette-forming perennial has large, broadly spoon-shaped leaves, and is well suited to this dry hill top; with the seed sown on a bed of free draining sand. The elegant panicles of dainty, lavender-blue flowers formed a misty appearance that associated beautifully with a range of other plant species.
Jill Raggett
