Cotton Lavender is Santolina chamaecyparissus. I grow it for its silver foliage which has a rather pungent aromatic smell to it. It does flower with yellow pom-poms but I must admit to have always been rather underwhelmed by these.

Mine has got very scruffy as I’ve failed to cut it back but my goldfinches seem to like it which has stopped from pulling it out so I will just be cutting it back to base & seeing if it will come again

The cotton lavender has featured quite a bit in my wildlife camera photos and video clips and these show how much the plant seems to shine with its blue-silver foliage. I think I can forgive it having boring flowers when its foliage sets off the flowers around it so well. I also have realised how big the plant has got when I see the size of the hedgehog against it.