16) Salvia, Scutellaria, Teucrium, Thymus and other Lamiaceae

Lamium armenum, from old, scanned slides. (The pink one might be sintenisii.)

Ajuga chamaepitys subsp. glareosa. I thought this might be A. bombycina, but I guess that's much woolier.

It doesn't know when to stop blooming. 

Bob

Salvias are a mainstay of summer gardens here. Recently we got this one as 'Celestial Blue', a hybrid from Salvia clevelandii and possibly S. pachyphylla and S.leucophylla.

It doesn't look as red in the calyces as the pics on the interweb, but it might just be this selection - otherwise it's possibly just Salvia clevelandii! It's certainly doing well, so we don't mind whatever it is!

cheers

fermi

I like this one a lot!  

I grew this Scut (mislabelled as Scutellaria tournefortii) from seed in 2011, from an Alplains seed order in 2009.  The seeds germinated in 7 days at room temperature, after about 5 weeks of stratification in the cold room.  I find that Scutellaria are often a bit big for my smallish rock gardens, but so far, so good with this one.   The bi-colour flowers are quite enchanting:

Pimelea ferruginea

Does anyone have any experience with this species? I have about 15 seedlings almost ready for the open garden and I have no experience with the plant. There isn't much information about it on the net, either. Advice?

Over the years I've grown quite a few Dracocephalum species, including D. argunense. I've also grown an extremely similar plant, which originally came to me as D. ruyschiana. I've compared the two dozens of times, and I've never been able to really distinguish between them. I've consulted with some of my BNARGS Chapter members, including Lori Chips and Anne Spiegel, and in general everyone seems to agree that what I've got, and what everyone else in the Northeast has got, is D. argunense. I've not been able to find anyone who actually is growing D.