(Holy Basil)

Holy basil is a bushy short-lived perennial often grown as an annual that originates from tropical Asia and is naturalized in warm regions worldwide. It has been cultivated for centuries and boasts a wide array of uses including culinary, medicinal and religious. It has a pungent, peppery flavor and upright form.

The leaves and stems of holy basil are somewhat hairy which helps distinguish it from common basil. Large leaves of this plant are typically green or mottled green and purple. In summer...

(Lemon Basil)

Lemon basil is a natural hybrid, which is a cross between sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) and hoary basil (Ocimum canum). The foliage of this warm season annual herb, or tender evergreen perennial, has a strong lemony basil fragrance and flavor. It is great for flavoring poultry, salad dressings and fish.

The moderately-sized plants have slightly hairy stems and smooth, oval leaves that are green to gray-green. Spikes of white, two-lipped flowers appear as summer temperatures...

(Lime Basil)

Lemon basil is a natural hybrid, which is a cross between sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) and hoary basil (Ocimum canum). The foliage of this warm season annual herb, or tender evergreen perennial, has a strong lemony basil fragrance and flavor. It is great for flavoring poultry, salad dressings and fish.

The moderately-sized plants have slightly hairy stems and smooth, oval leaves that are green to gray-green. Spikes of white, two-lipped flowers appear as summer temperatures...

(Lemon Basil, Pesto Perpetuo Lemon Basil, Variegated Lemon Basil)

Lovely, fragrant, variegated foliage covers this surprisingly vigorous warm season herb all summer. Introduced by Sunny Border Nurseries in 2004, 'Pesto Perpetuo' has an almost columnar bushy habit. Its pale green leaves are edged in ivory and have a crisp, clean look. It was discovered by Pierre Bennerup of Berlin, Connecticut in a block of Ocimum x citriodorum ‘Lesbos' plants.

Lemon basil is a natural hybrid, which is a cross between sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) and hoary basil...

(Lemon Basil)

Lemon basil is a natural hybrid, which is a cross between sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum) and hoary basil (Ocimum canum). The foliage of this warm season annual herb, or tender evergreen perennial, has a strong lemony basil fragrance and flavor. It is great for flavoring poultry, salad dressings and fish.

The moderately-sized plants have slightly hairy stems and smooth, oval leaves that are green to gray-green. Spikes of white, two-lipped flowers appear as summer temperatures...

(Hybrid Round-leaved Oregano)

This truly magnificent perennial cousin of culinary oregano, ‘Kent Beauty,’ is an exceptional container plant when grown all by itself. It is the result of crossing Oregano rotundifolium of Turkey and Armenia with the little known Oregano scabrum. This bushy, trailing perennial produces wiry stems bearing small, oval, blue-green leaves that are quite attractive in their own right. Though not particularly aromatic, they retain some oregano fragrance.

Prized for its bloom, ‘Kent...

(Regal Fern)

Regal, that is of outstanding merits, is but one way to describe the tremendously elegant fronds of the regal fern. A deciduous large fern that grows from an upright, massive rhizome that can become trunk-like, it is native to eastern North America, much of Europe and extreme northern Africa in moist swamps and bogs. The upright rhizome can branch with age and is covered in hairs and scars wrapped in black fibrous roots, called osmunda fiber.

Ranging from modestly sized to massive, the fronds...

(Royal Fern)

Regal, of outstanding merits, is but one way to describe the tremendously elegant fronds of the regal fern. Variety spectabilis is a deciduous large fern that grows from an upright, large rhizome that can become trunk-like and it is found in eastern North America. The upright rhizome can branch with age and is covered in hairs and scars wrapped in black fibrous roots, called osmunda fiber.

The arm's length-sized fronds of this fern are feather-like. This species of Osmunda is...

(African Daisy)

An erect, compact, shrubby perennial native to South Africa, African daisy is commonly grown as an annual for its long-blooming, large "daisies" with contrasting eyes. The first seed-grown African daisies to come in individual colors, the Asti Series also features exceptional drought tolerance. The flowers stay open on cloudy days. ‘Asti White’ with stunning white petals and indigo centers was named a 2008 All-America Selection Winner. Check out the article elsewhere on this website: www.learn2grow.com/gardeningguides/annuals/basics/AllAmericaSelections.aspx?page=2...

(African Daisy)

An erect, compact, shrubby perennial native to South Africa, African daisy is commonly grown as an annual for its long-blooming, large "daisies" with contrasting eyes. The first seed-grown African daisies to come in individual colors, the Asti Series also features exceptional drought tolerance. The flowers stay open on cloudy days. ‘Asti White’ with stunning white petals and indigo centers was named a 2008 All-America Selection Winner. Check out the article elsewhere on this website: www.learn2grow.com/gardeningguides/annuals/basics/AllAmericaSelections.aspx?page=2...