One of the most exciting rock garden plants we’ve met in the last several years is the Pine Mountain shrub mint. This recently discovered, but still un-named new species, hails from Pine Mountain, Georgia. In lieu of a formal name, we’re going with Clinopodium sp. nov. ‘Pine Mountain Pink’ for the clone we grow. Once this is published, it will most likely be an Endangered species candidate, due to its rarity.
In the garden, it forms a dwarf evergreen woody-stemmed clump to 8″ tall x 30″ wide. The tiny, minty-fragranced leaves are topped, starting for us in mid-May with a plethora of small lavender pink flowers…a superb bee attractant. For us, flowering continues through the summer. Now, we just have to catch it without flowers, so we can get good cuttings.
I have followed your daily postings with eagerness to see what you are featuring in your garden. Unfortunately the last two posts (May 28th and today, May 29th) have failed to show an image. Instead of the image, I receive a notice to download and install Jetpack. Have you changed software programs? Can you help me with how to view the images again?
Hopefully, our Marketing staff can help figure this out.
any clue about zone ?
We feel pretty comfortable with Zb-9a, but past that, it’s a guess.