
Zone: | 3-5 |
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Height: | 24" |
Description: | General: Attractive well-branched mound with mint-scented, fuzzy, serrated, green and white leaves and loads of pink tubular blooms. This showy herb is also a nice addition to your tea. Culinary Uses: Primarily used to make tea. Medicinal Uses: Makes a pleasant cordial tea which has been known to help with weakness of the stomach and flatulent colic. It is useful in hysterical complaints and a conserve made of the young fresh tops has been used for this purpose. Ornamental Uses: Upright bushy mounds of soft, green, oval shaped leaves, splashed with creamy white. Pleasantly fragrant. Rose-pink flowers are studded on short spikes among the leaves in mid summer. Useful towards the front of a border in a woodland setting among Hosta or ferns. Also attractive in mixed containers. |
Uses*: | Culinary, Ornamental |