Alluring color matches alluring taste on this Basil that will be a welcomed addition to your garden if only because of its deep, dark mahogony purple foliage that will be a visual oasis in a sea of predominantly green garden plants. ‘Red Rubin’ is nearly exact in flavor to ‘Genovese’ and can be used for all the same mouth watering Pesto uses even though ‘Red Rubin’ Pesto will be far darker because of the foliage color. In the garden, ‘Red Rubin’ tends to be a bit looser in form and rather than white bloom, striking violet-blue blooms top each branch. For best eating purposes and flavor, harvest before flowering and for best garden growth, plant ‘Red Rubin’ in full sun in the ground well after danger of late frost has passed or in a container where its great foliage color will mesh perfectly even with flowering plants!

Offering both beauty and function Wild Color Basil has a strong upright form that stands out in the mixed herb bed and its dark green and purple leaves are as tasty as they are ornamental. Each tall stem becomes loaded with blooms attracting pollinators to the garden. Cooking with Wild Colors is a as easy as pinching a few or a lot of the tasty leaves for adding delicious flavor to any culinary delight! A great selection for pesto or slice thinly for an added zing to caprese salad.

Robust and vigorous, Whispurr™ Blue is tightly packed with wonderfully minty scented foliage along stems that are topped with purple buds that open to big plumes of lilac flowers in mid to late spring. Perfect for massing in a garden, this selection will also add even more color with its magnetic attraction to butterflies and other native insects. Long blooming through the summer, it even thrives in a container on your deck!  

‘Picture Purrfect’ will be the cat(mint)’s meow in your garden or porch with its solid performance in a cute little package. ‘Picture Purrfect’ forms a tight, round mound of aromatic foliage with large blue and periwinkle flowers that bloom earlier than other Nepeta varieties. Ideal for containers on your porch, edging a sunny border, or filling in small, empty spaces in the garden.

Dark green, very fragrant foliage forms rounded mound that serves as the backdrop for unique, pale yellow, purple-spotted flowers resting on showy whorls of pinkish petals in early summer. This heavy bloomer is a native pollinator magnet and will be alive with activity during its long flower period.

Monarda’s aromatic, upright foliage is a delight in the garden. Early summer brings rosettes of yellowish, purple-spotted, tubular flower spikes nestled in large, purple-tinged bracts. Loaded with nectar for hummingbirds and butterflies, irresistable pollen for native bees. Prefers sandy soils.

Tuck this early blooming bee balm into the front of your flower border to create a colorful swath of magenta purple flowers. Butterflies and hummingbirds will adore it!

Tuck this early blooming bee balm into the front of your flower border to create a colorful swath of light lilac purple flowers. Butterflies and hummingbirds will adore it!

Prolific blooms for over 8 weeks in summer, these enormous, soft lavender flowers attract butterflies, native bees and hummingbirds. Its foliage is fragrant and extremely tolerant to powdery mildew and, with its dense from, it’s perfect for landscape massing near a pond or in a rain garden.

Butterflies love this perennial for its fragrant, fuchsia flowers, and you will treasure it for its easy care and colorful contribution to your landscape. Not all just beauty; this plant demonstrates a little bit of brawn with its mildew resistance!