Grayswood Pink Rockrose                SIS-tis

• Evergreen shrub, to about 3 ft (1 m) high and a 5 ft (1.5 m) wide.  Foliage gray-green.  Flowers pink with a yellow center, 4.5 cm wide.
• Full sun, well-drained site, drought tolerant.  .
• Hardy to USDA Zone 6?    Award of Garden Merit, 2002, Royal Horticultural Society.
• Derived from a cross of C. parviflorus x C. sintenisii.  Apparently sometimes sold incorrectly as 'Silver Pink' or C. parviflorus.  Cultivars 'Barnsley Pink' and 'Chelsea Pink' are synonyms or possibly seedlings from 'Grayswood Pink' (The Cistus & Halimium Website, www.cistuspage.org.uk).
• Oregon State Univ., North Willamette Research and Extension Center, Aurora.