Cotton Lavender

It’s not very colorful in color anyway, but in B&W it kind of has a chaotic or “fractal-y” look to me. But color aside, this plant is *so* soft to the touch!

An interesting article begins with “When you discover lavender cotton for your flower garden, you’ll categorize it as one of those plants you wish you had known about when you first started gardening,” http://flowers.about.com/od/Perennial-Flowers/p/Lavender-Cotton.htm

Species page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Santolina_chamaecyparisus&rank=binomial

Photo taken at SIUC Plant Biology Greenhouse, http://www.plantbiology.siu.edu/facilities/plant-biology-facilities/greenhouse/index.php

1 year ago (“More ‘pattern-and-texture’”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-02-20
2 years ago (“Necklace on dresser”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-02-20
3 years ago (“Let there be light!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-02-20

[Danette Thompson]

It is interesting how the texture really pops here.

[Thom Mitchell]

@danette That's what I was going for! Thank you, Danette!

[Rick Schies]

That looks like a thick bunch