Cultivation of Lagundi

An easily grown plant, it prefers a light well-drained loamy soil in a warm sunny position sheltered from cold drying winds. Succeeds in poor dry soils. Plants tolerate temperatures down to about -10°c. Plants only flower freely after a warm summer, so they are best grown against a sunny wall even in areas where they are hardy.The plants require abundant summer sunshine in order to ripen their wood fully; the well-ripened wood is more frost resistant. There are some named forms, selected for their ornamental value. The leaves and stems are strongly aromatic. The flowers have a most pronounced musk-like perfume.