Heliotrope
Gardening Tips: Perfumed Evenings
Whenever I smell heliotrope I think of the scene in Our
Town, in which the girl smells her mother’s Heliotrope from her bedroom window. I like to plant fragrant flowers
where their scent will waft indoors at night: Nicotiana next
to the back door, perhaps. Or Four O’Clocks under the open
kitchen window at the base of the screen porch. |
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#7500 Marine Heliotrope
Heliotropium arborescens. A treasured heirloom with a
heady, vanilla fragrance, Marine has dark-leafed foliage and
precious clusters of tiny, deep violet-blue, trumpet-shaped
flowers. Prized in old-fashioned nosegays for their
legendary fragrance and lush flowers, Marine Heliotrope is
wonderful interplanted with Black-eyed Susan, Victoria
Salvia and Frosted Queen Bachelor's Buttons Mixture. It
prefers to be started indoors 10 to 12 weeks before the last
frost date and may be dug out and potted up before the first
fall frost and brought indoors as a winter blooming house
plant. Annual. Summer-flowering. Height: 12" to 24".
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Packet of 200 Seeds / $2.95
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