Heliotropium arborescens ‘Marine’ seeds – (Cherry Pie)
$4.10
A compact form of Heliotrope with lovely dark purple-blue flowers borne in masses over dark green leaves. The flowers have a sweet vanilla scent which perfumes the garden and the insects love them
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Description
Heliotrope is an old fashioned favorite of our great grandmothers and their great grandmothers. No flower garden in those times would have been without a heliotrope. They were grown for their rich sweet scent and were larger plants which grew to over a metre high.
This plant forms a small compact mound of dark green crinkled leaves shading purple, over which it produces great 15cm heads of dark violet-blue heads of sweet smelling flowers. The flower heads are borne in abundance and the plant reaches about 30 cm in height. This plant is a perennial in temperate areas , but in cooler districts is grown as an annual. It is used as a window box and summer bedding plant because of its profuse blooms and rich scent. If you have a mixed border, this plant is indispensable to fill those bare gaps and produces its sweet ice-cream fragrant flowers all summer long.
Additional information
| Classification | Annual, Tender perennial |
|---|---|
| Common Name | Cherry Pie |
| Family | Boraginaceae |
| Maximum Height | approx 30 cm |
| Number of seeds in packet | approx 30 |
