Othonna cheirifolia

This evergreen shrub is from the African countries of Algeria and Tunisiae. It was used extensively by the late UK garden designer Gertrude Jekyll in the early 1900s. It performs amazingly well through both hot, humid summers and cold, wet winters. The tight mats, whose foliage resembles tiny, upright, silver-blue coke spoons, are topped by flower stalks of yellow daisies in late spring. Othonna cheirifolia is right at home sited in a hot sun, well-drained rock garden or in a drought-prone seasonal container planting in colder climates.