Stachys

If you're thinking of removing a section of lawn and replacing it with low-maintenance plants, some easy perennials that spread far and wide are yarrow, chamomile, erigeron, festuca, gaura, Stachys and creeping thyme.

Annie Spiegelman: Cry Me a River: Watering Your Yard in a Drought 2010

If you're thinking of removing a section of lawn and replacing it with low-maintenance plants, some easy perennials that spread far and wide are yarrow, chamomile, erigeron, festuca, gaura, Stachys and creeping thyme.

Annie Spiegelman: Cry Me a River: Watering Your Yard in a Drought 2010

Stachys and Nigella were among the plantings, brought from our gardens in Northeast Tennessee.

Nigella Jungle « Fairegarden 2009

We seem to share yellow blooms, and that Stachys, too.

Wordless June Blooms « Fairegarden 2009

Purchased at the festival to come live at the Fairegarden and kindly brought to the car by golf cart when we were ready to leave were a deciduous azalea, R. prunifolium, Calycanthus ‘Venus’ and Stachys monnieri ‘Hummelo’.

UT Blooms Days June 2008 « Fairegarden 2009

I love the Nasella tenuissima and Stachys byzantina, they really light up the garden.

Nigella Jungle « Fairegarden 2009

I am loving that Stachys, it was used in Chicago at the Lurie too.

Wordless June Blooms « Fairegarden 2009

Both the Stachys and Nasella are used extensively here, they add so much and are so easy to spread.

Nigella Jungle « Fairegarden 2009

Other endemics and near-endemics found within the ecoregion as a whole are Panicum arbusculum, Stachys burchelliana, Schotia afra, Berkheya chamaepeuce, Barleria lichtensteiniana, Euphorbia gariepina, E. gregaria, E. avasmontana, Zygophyllum dregeanum, and Z. microcarpum.

Namibian savanna woodlands 2008

Some evergreen perennials, such as Pityranthus tortuosus and Stachys aegyptiaca, may flower all year, whereas others have restricted flowering during the summer (Zygophyllum coccineum) or autumn (Haloxylon salicornicum).

North Saharan steppe and woodlands 2008