Heliotrope is a plant that likes dry summers & will flower from quite early through to the first frost. It has dark green leaves & small flowers in clusters, these can be white or lavender, however, the best ones are the purple ones. Their fragrance is unlike any other, cherry pie with vanilla & totally delicious. I have mine in pots on a small terrace outside the kitchen & on sunny days you can smell them half way up the garden & through open windows when inside. Butterflies love them, I have two dwarf buddleias at the edge of this area & the combination of these plants attracts them in large numbers. Their only negative, & it's a huge one, is that they are poisonous, so even though it's from the borage family don't put any part of it in your drink. Having said that we've had two children, many animals & now three grandchildren & none have ever tried to eat them.
Yes ours was the purple and the smell is just like you say. We had the purple flowers, must grow some next year. Bet this years would have been glorious.
Please describe the smell & plant.....I may get one but my gardening sucks.....I've been called the 'angel of death' in relation to all things garden.
Like Twilight has said cherry pie and vanilla. We had the purple flowers and must grow some for next year. We grew ours from seed,not seen any plants in nurseries or garden centres.
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