Fragrant Foliage - Page 2 of 11 - Fine Gardening
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Plant Guide
‘Walker’s Low’ catmint
Nepeta × faassenii 'Walker's Low'This mound of lavender-blue flowers and aromatic, grayish green leaves up to 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide is great as edging or in a border, herb, or rock garden.
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Mexican anise tree
Illicium mexicanumAttractive, glossy, dark green leaves and red flowers are similar to those of Florida anise, but this plant flowers continuously from spring to fall.
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Common sage
Salvia officinalisCooks and gardeners alike are indebted to this classic, evergreen perennial for the unique, pungent flavor and aroma that its gray-green leaves produce.
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Colorful Flowering Sage
Salvia nemorosaThis drought-tolerant perennial produces flower spikes in shades of violet, purple, or white to pink, with purple bracts.
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Allwood hybrids
Dianthus × allwoodiiThese modern hybrids bear salmon-pink blossoms ('Doris' has scarlet in the center) and bloom freely with moderate fragrance.
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‘Dropmore’ catmint
Nepeta × faassenii ‘Dropmore’This cultivar is a clump-forming perennial with toothed gray-green leaves and larger flowers than the hybrid.
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Lavandula angustifolia ‘Violet Intrigue’
Lavandula angustifolia 'Violet Intrigue'
'Violet Intrigue' exhibits the typical handsome gray foliage of good lavenders, but its form and flowers are particularly noteworthy.
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Wintergreen
Gaultheria procumbensThis creeping, rhizomatous shrublet grows to 6 inches, with scalloped or bristly toothed, glossy, dark green leaves.
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Golden oregano
Origanum vulgare 'Aureum’Golden oregano is a robust creeper with tiny, rounded leaves 1/2 to 1 inch wide.