16 May 2020
Jerusalem Sage / Phlomis fruticosa ( shrubby ) is a species of plant in the sage family Lamiaceae, native to Albania, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Turkey, and countries of the former Yugoslavia.]
Here is a specimen in my village. I've never seen it in flower before or taken much notice of where it is!
It is an evergreen shrub, up to 1 m tall by 1.5 m wide. Sage-like, aromatic leaves are oval, 2-4 inches long, larger than the common edible sage. i have read it is edible, but I think the leaves are not as tasty as common sage. They are long, wrinkled, grey-green with white undersides, and covered with fine hairs.
The flowers are deep yellow and tubular growing in whorls of 20 in short spikes in early summer.
It is popular as an ornamental plant. It gained gained a Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. It has naturalised in parts of South West England..
It is listed as deer resistant, hard y and tolerant of a range of soil types.
Bees like it!
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It would be lovely to hear what you think.