Hardy plants with thick heart-shaped 2” leaves that sun-blush purple during their ideal salad phase. Harvest continually by the leaf or stem tips for judicious use in salad mix, or cut in bunches as you would basil. Purple flower spikes follow the tender eating stage, making sturdy fragrant cut flowers that will hold color and smell even after drying. Migrating birds relish oily seeds from unharvested seedheads. Grows in clumps, does not spread by runners or self-sowing. A very good candidate for the insectary hedgerow. Farm Original Variety! OSSI (Open Source Seed Initiative) Pledged Variety.

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