This garden selection grows to 4 feet high x 6-10 wide.  Bright shiny evergreen leaves and medium-blue flowers in spring. It makes a large mounding shrub or ground cover  great for erosion control massed on slopes and banks  or a low  informal hedge. Plant in full sun in coastal gardens  provide partial shade inland.  Attracts bees and butterflies. Hardy to 15 degrees F. Horticultural selection C. thyrsiflorus: origin = cuttings (1980) Arroyo de la Cruz  San Luis Obisbo Co.; intro Nevin Smith  Suncrest Nurseries 1981