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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.