Evergreen. 2 ft x 5-8 ft. Sun.
Large growing groundcover, with huge winter bloom with bright blue flowers. Excellent for large spaces, rock walls with its cascading habit. Considered a groundcover because of its growth habit, Lockwood de Forest does double duty as a culinary due to a high amount of oil in the leaves.
Also known as Prostrate Rosemary or Santa Barbara Rosemary. The story goes that Santa Barbara Rosemary was discovered "in the Santa Barbara garden of Lockwood and Elizabeth de Forest. The de Forest's speculated that the plant was a spontaneous hybrid between an upright plant that was planted in their garden in 1927 and a prostrate rosemary that was planted in the 1930's. Elizabeth de Forest, in an article for Pacific Horticulture in 1976, described the pale blue color as "the color of the old French air force uniform". She mentions in this article that it became the most common of prostrate Rosemary cultivars in Santa Barbara." from San Marcos Growers website.