Heliotropium arborescens ‘Marine’ – (Cherry Pie)

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.