Rock Rose

Cistus x lenis Grayswood Pink

• Position: full sun
• Soil: moderately-fertile, well-drained soil
• Rate of growth: average
• Flowering period: June and July
• Flower colour: pale pink
• Other features: wavy-margined, mid-green leaves
• Hardiness: frost hardy
  
  A profusion of papery, pale pink flowers fading to white towards the centre during June and July and wavy-margined, grey-green leaves. This graceful, low-growing rock rose provides excellent, all-year groundcover for sheltered, sunny areas of the garden. Why not grow it at the front of the border with other sun-loving Mediterranean plants, where the detail of the flowers can be appreciated close-up?
  
  
• Garden care: After flowering pinch back young plant to encourage a bushy habit. Lightly trim or cut back any stems that spoil the symmetry of the plant.
  
  
• Goes well with: Anthemis tinctoria 'E.C. Buxton', Stachys byzantina 'Silver Carpet', Ceratostigma willmottianum, Eryngium variifolium, Artemisia absinthium 'Lambrook Silver', Perovskia 'Blue Spire'