Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips' Check with George aromatic when brushed or crushed

aromatic when brushed or crushed

and is meaningfully more cold hardy

wind-borne seed

lean sand and excellent drainage

ornamental novelty and a formidable barrier

Chelone lyonii 'Hot Lips' Check with George aromatic when brushed or crushedThe turtlehead is named twice over for things that go quiet. The genus Chelone is the Greek word for tortoise, after a nymph who mocked the marriage of Zeus and Hera and was turned, for her insolence, into a creature that carries her house and holds her tongue; one look at the flower, a hinged, swollen, pink and gaping thing that seems about to either speak or bite, and you see why the name stuck. The species honors John Lyon, the Scottish plant