If someone had told me that there was a heliotrope that could hang with a lantana over a long, hot and wet summer, I would have said sure when pigs fly. Well clear Runway One, because Augusta's Lavender is arriving for spring 2022.
I am writing this as much for the greenhouse grower as the home gardener. This plant is a winner and put it in production plans ASAP. As a gardener in the South, it has been a dream to have a heliotrope that could perform over a long, hot summer and not disappear by June 15.
When it was suggested, I put these in The Garden Guy’s trial. I quickly responded that heliotropes were basically losers in the South. You know: too hot, too humid, and every heliotrope I had ever tried perished as if it encountered a flame thrower.
