Hi Sherry,

FYI, Your plant looks like Leonotis nepetifolia rather than Leonotis menthifolia. The leaf shape is wrong for L. menthifolia.



@eclayne

Thanks, danita ! Came from a grocery store unlabeled and I'm only familiar with Leonotis leonurus...which unfortunately did not make it here on my first try, will try again, on a mouned area.....The leontis nepetifolia has done well though...

Hmm, your grocery store sounds more interesting than mine. They only have run-of-the-mill plants here.
Leonotis are regularly misidentified even when they do have a label. It seems that 90% of the time things listed as Leonotis menthifolia or Leonotis leonurus are actually Leonotis nepetifolia. Leonotis nepetifolia sets a lot of seeds and can be a bit weedy in some areas. It is pretty, though, and the hummingbirds like it.
Fingers crossed for your next Leonotis leonurus!

There's not a lot in the way of nursery forage here and the grocery store that has a small nursery is 20 miles away in Brookings, Oregon...they mainly have plants from May to November and you never know what will show up there...we were driving through the lot several years ago when I spotted the Leonotis leonurus and shouted, "Stop the car !!"...lol...well, Grocery Outlet will occasionally have something...also several years ago they had a table of digiplexis in huge 2 gallon for $11...and Buy Rite puts some interesting racks out also. The good nursery 85 miles away in McKinleyville is wonderful, but I do not get down there much anymore, just as well, when I do go, I have to spend a lot....lol

I moved the photo to Lion's Ear (Leonotis nepetifolia) Thanks for the heads up.

Well, of course! Once you've gone to all the trouble and expense of traveling that far, you must justify it by buying many, many plants! That way, the travel costs are spread over many plants, instead of just a few, which makes it a better bargain.

Thanks, Evan!

Uh huh...well, they have a Round Table Pizza and Costco down there also....lol...I could easily go bankrupt.