Origin
South America
Light
Full sun
Watering
Weekly
Care
Easy
Flowering
Flowering
Outdoor
Arroche Halime
Silver-grey foliage that grows in salty, sandy ground: a coastal windbreak hedge, and fodder through dry seasons.
Care Profile
A guide to ensuring your botanical companion thrives.
Origin
Mediterranean
Light
Full sun
Watering
Rarely
Maintenance
Easy
The silver of salt lands
Its silver colour comes from bladder hairs that store excess salt on the leaf surface before falling away: the plant sheds what the soil forces on it.
Planted across Tunisia and the Maghreb to restore saline rangeland, it supplies protein-rich fodder once the grass has gone.
"Where salt takes over, it still holds."
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Styling Tip 01
Salty, sandy soil and full sun
Neither sea spray nor wind troubles it: this is a front-line coastal windbreak hedge.
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Styling Tip 02
Almost no watering
Water through the first year to root it, then leave it to fend for itself.
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Styling Tip 03
Cut back to thicken
An annual spring prune gives a dense hedge, and the young shoots are the part used as fodder.
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Origin
South America
Light
Full sun
Watering
Rarely
Care
Easy
Flowering
Flowering