Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun
Water
Weekly
Mature size
2–4 m
First harvest
Flowers from year two
Family
Lamiaceae
Where it grows
ground, terrace
Good for
biodiversity, healing
Sow in
monsoon
Care
Cut it hard every year; it takes any amount of pruning.
A scrambling roadside shrub with palmate leaves and small blue flower spikes.
Growing it
Cut it hard every year; it takes any amount of pruning.
What it is for
Traditional poultices; nectar for bees through the monsoon.