Aromatic & vegetable gardening

ALLIUM senescens Montanum is a charming little bulbous plant, known as the mountainous garlic. It is really decorative with its numerous mauve pompon flowers, and at the same time we love it for its use condiment (in salad, with fresh cheese, in barbecue). Melliferous, rustic, not demanding and original, it will embellish any balcony, as well as rockery, vegetable garden or ground cover.

CRAMBE maritima is a decorative and at the same time, edible specie. Nowadays protected, its a cousin from our cabbage's vegetable garden, with its subtle cauliflower's taste. It grows on the littoral (talus and scree) but we can grow it very well in pot as well as in the vegetable garden. The little spring flowers perfume with a smell of honey. Its surrated large leaves and bluish green leaves reach about 60 cm high and 1m width.

Perennial with pleasant pastel shades, Mertensia maritime is a decorative ground-cover. Its leaves are silvery green, quite thick. Between July and September, pink flowers buds appear, before becoming delightful tubular blue flowers. Not really rustic, this plant suits in mediterranean gardens, in rock gardens or in herbs gardens.

Perennial with pleasant pastel shades, Mertensia maritime is a decorative ground-cover. Its leaves are silvery green, quite thick. Between July and September, pink flowers buds appear, before becoming delightful tubular blue flowers. Not really rustic, this plant suits in mediterranean gardens, in rock gardens or in herbs gardens.

Rungia klosii is a beautiful perennial with a blue flowering. Its leaves are shiny green, with marked yellow ribbs. Aromatic, the foliage is also edible, with a pronounced flavor reminding mushrooms. The flowering of this variety is purple blue, at the end of summer. This shade perennial will like areas with mild climate, protected from frosts.

Salicorne europea is an annual marine plant which reseeds in autumn. Its foliage is composed of succulent branches in small tufts. During the flowering, in august and september, tiny white flower grow at the end of branches. This variety suits in salty sandy soils, which give a iodine taste to its edible foliage.