Helichrysum italicum - Curry Plant Tubestock | Seedling

Helichrysum italicum – Curry Plant

Description:
A compact, aromatic Mediterranean shrub prized for its silvery-grey foliage and distinctive curry-like fragrance. Helichrysum italicum produces clusters of small, bright yellow flowers through summer, which are highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects. Its fine, silver foliage provides excellent contrast in garden beds and borders, while its naturally compact form makes it well suited to rockeries, herb gardens, low hedging, and waterwise landscapes. Hardy and drought tolerant once established, it performs particularly well in sunny, well-drained sites.

🌳 Height:
0.3–0.6 m

🌿 Width:
0.4–0.8 m spread

🔧 Uses:

• Aromatic and ornamental planting

• Pollinator and beneficial insect habitat

• Herb and Mediterranean gardens

• Rockeries and borders

• Low hedging and edging

• Waterwise and drought-tolerant landscaping

• Cut and dried flower arrangements

🌱 Ideal growing conditions:

• Well-drained sandy, gravelly, or loamy soils

• Full sun

• Low to moderate fertility

• Excellent drainage is essential

💪 Tolerates:

• Drought

• Poor and low-fertility soils

• Heat

• Dry conditions

• Wind

• Sandy and gravelly soils

• Light frost

💧 Drought hardy:
Very high — highly drought tolerant once established and performs best with minimal irrigation

❄️ Frost tolerant:
Moderate — tolerates light to moderate frost once established

🧂 Salt tolerant:
Moderate — can tolerate some coastal exposure when planted in well-drained soils