Aromatic & vegetable gardening

This garlic is both very decorative with its long bloom of purple flowers, utilitarian with its flowers attracting many pollinating insects and its stems are edible. A very robust and extremely floriferous variety, it is covered with balls of mauve to lilac flowers throughout the summer.

ALLIUM little sapphire® is a very floriferous perennial garlic variety, similar to Allium millennium but with more pink flowers. The flowers develop throughout the summer above the foliage, clustered in small pale purple to pink balls. They are very attractive to insects. Edible, all parts of the plant can be eaten. Vigorous, the vegetation quickly forms a beautiful tuft of fine, upright leaves that can reach 40 to 50 cm in height.

The Hyssopus officinale blues is a perennial medicinal and condiment. It is a perennial with a compact bushy habit, it has a fine lanceolate, semi-persistent foliage. In summer it develops a blue spike-shaped bloom.

Rustic and creeping, Mentha requienii is a lovely ground-cover in any season. Its small rounded leaves grow while forming a close to the ground carpet. Its flowering is composed of very little light purple flowers, in June and July. Under a tree or a shrub layer, around a stepping stones path, this plant looks good.

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.