If Life gives you Climatic Lemons, try Acantholimon

Despite a summer with a month of incessant rains, our patch of Acantholimoni halophilum continues to thrive. This native to very dry regions of Central Turkey should not have a chance in our hot, rainy summer climate. This shows how habitat creation can can often serve to mitigate the effects of weather on plants from different climatic regions. In this crevice section, it grows in a mix of 50% Permatill gravel, so between the substrate and the small cracks, only small amounts of water get to the roots. Despite this being four years old now, our three other plantings from the same Kenton Seth seed crop have gone on to the great compost pile in the sky.