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Nursery Located At Ruckman Road 57 
Lavendula officinalis Twickle Purple. A dwarf variety only 8 to 10 inches high with 
grayer, woollier leaves and spikes of dark purple flowers. Much slower and more 
compact in growth than the one above. 
LEIOPHYLLUM, Sand Myrtle. (Ericaceae, Heath Family) 
Leiophyllum buxifolium. An attractive compact evergreen shrub from 10 to 18 inches 
high with tiny glossy green leaves closely set on the wiry branches and dainty 
clusters of bright pink buds that open to fluffy whiite flowers at the tip of almost 
every branch in May and June. A native of the New Jersey Pine Barrens that likes 
a sandy, acid leafmold soil in full sun or light shade. It is easy if it is given sand, 
leafmold and sun and watered every day for the first few weeks after transplanting. 
(pH 4-5) 
Courtesy American Rock Garden Society 
Leiophyllum buxifolium 
Leiophyllum buxifolium prostratum. An extremely dwarf from that I found near the 
town of Forked River in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. The branches are com- 
pletely prostrate with only the very tips holding the clusters of white flowers held 
above the ground. The original plants found growing in adverse condit-ons were 
rather straggly but under cultivation they have developed into tight mats of tiny 
shining evergreen leaves. This is not Leiophyllum lyonii which is usually called pros- 
tratum and found only on one mountain top in Tennessee, This new and interesting 
plant wants a sandy, ac'd leafmold soil in sun or light shade. (pH 4-5) It is just as 
dwarf in shade as it is in sun. 
LEONTOPODIUM, Edelweiss. (Compositae, Daisy Family) 
Leontopodium alpinum. The we!l known and beloved flower of the Swiss Alps. Lovely 
mounds of very densely woolly gray leaves about 4 inches high and many erect 
stems bearing attractive silvery-white woolly flower heads in late spring. The 
Edelweiss should be planted in a gritty lime soil in full sun where it will have a 
deep and well drained root run. It should be kept as dry as possible in winter. 
It is best planted in a rock crevice or dry wall under an overhanging rock, (pH 7-8) 
