Hebe

Not sure what it is about hebes and northern climates. The one in my garden has everything it should ever want and, at twenty years old, is only a foot tall -- or a tenth the size of the perfectly rounded ones I saw on Haida Gwaii a few years back. The hebe in this post is from Sointula and, as you can see, looks like a brain. You can tell it is thinking because it is in bloom.