August Lavender Heliotrope sweeping awards across the country

Six months ago, The Garden Guy prognosticated that Augusta Lavender heliotrope was going to one of the hottest plants for 2022. This was really based on my trials at my house outside of Columbus, Ga.

Unbeknownst to me at the time, Augusta Lavender was sweeping awards across the country, in places like The University of Georgia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oregon State, Colorado State, Oklahoma State and Cornell. This is like a Who’s Who of awards.

You would have been hard pressed to find gardeners anywhere that believed there was a heliotrope that could hang all summer with Luscious Marmalade lantana. Well, the Luscious Marmalade has turned to toast as expected with temperatures in the low 20s.