The theme is scented foliage, but this selection of plants also provides additional sustainability benefits. There are a variety of flower types from spring through the summer to help attract a wide variety of different pollinators. Once established, the oregano will help to cover the ground, protecting the soil surface, reducing soil surface moisture loss and helping to supress weeds. 

The plant selection also helps support general health and wellbeing as many of the plants and their associated scents are used in therapeutic gardening practices to help create a calming and relaxing space.  

1 - Choisya ternata ‘Sundance’ 

2 - Artemisia absinthium 

3 - Myrtus communis 

4 - Salvia ‘Blue Spire’

5 - Salvia rosmarinus ‘Miss Jessopp’s Upright’

6 - Lavendula ‘Imperial Gem’  

7 - Origanum ‘Kent Beauty’ 

2 - Artemisia absinthium is an erect sub-shrub with very finely divided, pleasantly aromatic grey-green leaves, and small, nodding yellow flowerheads in late summer. 

3 - Myrtus communis is a bushy medium-sized evergreen shrub with small, aromatic leaves and profuse white flowers, which are followed by purplish-black berries. 

4 - Salvia ‘Blue Spire’ is a small deciduous sub-shrub with pale stems bearing deeply-divided, aromatic greyish leaves and plumy panicles of small violet-blue flowers in late summer and autumn.

5 - Salvia rosmarinus ‘Miss Jessopp’s Upright’ is a compact, upright, medium-sized evergreen shrub with narrow, aromatic and edible dark green leaves. Small, two-lipped light blue flowers are borne mainly in spring and summer.

6 - Lavandula ‘Imperial Gem’ is a compact evergreen shrub with narrow grey-green leaves and fragrant spikes of deep purple flowers in summer. 

7 - Origanum ‘Kent Beauty’ is a semi-evergreen sub-shrub with trailing stems bearing pairs of rounded, bright green, aromatic and edible leaves. In summer it produces whorls of tubular pink flowers with overlapping, deep rose-pink bracts.