There are so many cistus varieties available that it's easy to find the right one for adding color to your summer planting scheme. And as summers become warmer and we need to conserve water, these ...

Find out how to grow Cistus ladanifer Delightfully aromatic and slightly sticky leaves make an ideal background for the large white flowers of this Mediterranean shrub. Often in flower right through ...

If you kept goats in Crete or Cyprus, chances are your animals browsed on common native shrubs called cistus. These are to the Mediterranean what sagebrush is to the American West, and thus share some ...

It is hard to imagine a plant more deserving of a place in the early summer garden than cistus, or the sun rose. As tulips lose their shape and the apple blossom goes over, cistus comes into flower ...

Cistus species, native to the Mediterranean basin, have long been recognised for their rich reservoir of bioactive phytochemicals. Major compound classes include polyphenols (notably flavonoids and ...