CORONILLA valentina ssp.glauca

'Ornamental evergreen shrub with slender and flexible branches which, growing up, assumes a rounded and compact shape and a height that can even exceed the meter. The leaves are imparipinnate, gray-green and a little bit 'fleshy'. The bloom, which even can start at the end of winter, consists of strongly scented inflorescences, whose flowers are arranged in a ring, from whom the name ''coronilla.'''

This small shrub grows spontaneously in all the Mediterranean maquis, it can be used to form low borders or associated to other Mediterranean plants with contrasting foliage and blooming. It can be placed in sunny positions and in well drained, dry and poor soils both in coastal and inner gardens thanks to its strong toleration toward drought and frost.