.png) Origanum (O. rotundifolium x O. scabrum) 'Kent Beauty'
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- common names: oregano, Kent Beauty oregano
- flowering season: June - September
- height: 6 to 10 inches
- Light requirements: full sun, half a day of sun will do
- Soil requirements: average to poor and well drained
- Water requirements: will survive in a dry landscape
- Growth habit: a widening clump with a trailing habit
- How to propagate: divide in spring or early summer
- Leaf type: rounded leaves with silvery veins that are evergreen in the warmer climates
- Ways to use it: highly useful in a sunny garden, it grows well with other flowering perennials and also grows well in a large pot on a terrace or deck
- Special characteristics: a newer plant to American gardens, its colorful purplish-pink bracts develop in early summer and last for a long time
- Other points of interests: does not demand a lot of effort to grow well; looks especially nice in a hanging planter
'Kent Beauty' is an aromatic plant that has unique, large drooping, purplish-pink bracted, hop-like flowers that bloom from summer to fall. Although pungent, it is not as strongly scented as the oreganos used in cooking, and is edible although a little bitter. It lives as a perennial from year to year in USDA Zones 6 - 9. Elsewhere it is worth either growing as an annual or carrying over winter potted up in a garage or unheated basement. The large headed bracts are highly prized by flower arrangers. |
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