Barbara Tingey
This very desirable ornamental origanum is reputedly a cross between Origanum rotundifolium and O. calcarata. The leaves are round and lightly felted, and the plant grows rapidly to become a mat before sending up flowering stems. The profuse flower spikes resemble those of hops, long and drooping with very pretty pink flowers surrounded by showy rose and green paperlike bracts. It is perfect for growing in a tall pot, in a hanging basket in a sunny position, or for cascading over a wall. The flowers dry perfectly for craft work. Barbara Tingay is very attractive to both honeyeaters and bees.
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$7.95
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Country Cream
Origanum vulgare
This is one of the prettiest of variegated plants, forming a low growing dense cushion delightfully variegated with pale cream very plentifully splashed on fresh green. The foliage is deliciously and strongly scented of oregano. The inflorecences of flowers are borne in mid-summer and are almost white. This is a good culinary oregano and a must have.
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$8.50
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Dingle Fairy
One of the most irrisistable origanums, making a dense cushiony creeping mat of fragrant foliage. It produces masses of dainty hop-like inflorescences with lilac flowers and cream, apple green. and pink bracts on short stems in summer. Fit for any fairy to perch upon. Full sun, good drainage (it loves a large pot) and grit around the plant is recommended.
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$8.50
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Golden or Aureum
O. vulgare
Grown in full sunshine this variety spreads to form a substantial dense carpet up to 80 cm wide of pure golden foliage and has palest pink inflorescences. The foliage has good typical oregano flavour for culinary use.
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$6.75
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Greek Oregano
A superbly fragrant and flavour-filled culinary origanum with upright flowering stems to 80 cm, and heads of pure white flowers with tiny green bracts. It is very attactive to bees.
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$6.50
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Herrenhausen
O. laevigatum cv.
While the foliage is spice scented, this variety is particularly valuable as an ornamental. It forms a good sized clump to around 80 cm wide with densely foliaged stems. The leaves are richly tinged purple when young and in winter, The inflorecences are quite spectacular, forming airy panicles of lilac tubular flowers throughout the growing season. O. laevigatum is native to Turkey.
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$8.50
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Hopley
O. laevigatum
Originally selected by Hopleys Nursery in England, this variety caught our eye in California where it is used very creatively in planters, pots and gardens for its very showy elegant sprays of deep lavender-purple flowers with purple bracts throughout summer and autumn. Loves full sun and is tolerant of salt-laden air. The bees and butterflies adore it for its nectar. It is delightful too in dried flower arrangements and herb wreaths.
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$7.75
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Italian
O. vulgare
A deliciously aromatic perennial herb for all those southern Italian dishes. Extremely pretty heads of rosy pink flowers in late summer that send the bees into a state of ecstacy.
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$6.75
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Newleaze
This is a form of O. scabrum subsp. pulchrum
This very pretty mid-summer flowering variety grows to around 30 cm and has neat small aromatic foliage. The showy inflorescences of pink flowers are very attractive to bees and butterflies.
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$7.50
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Origanum 'Santa Cruz'
The gorgeous little hop-like flowers are a soft dusky rose pink and the neat foliage is a clear light green. The plant has wiry red-suffused stems. The flowers are beautiful either fresh or dried for craft work. Not ideal for culinary use but charming in the garden.
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$8.50
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Origanum Thumble's Variety
This is a golden-green leaved form of oregano, more compact and lower growing than Golden Oregano and closer to a bright lime green, It has excellent flavour for cooking and it spreads to around 30 cm or more and to a height of 15 to 20 cm. It is drought resistant and the short branched spikes of tiny tubular light pink flowers are butterfly and bee attractors.
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$8.50
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Showy
O. vulgare cv.
A selected variety that looks spectacular cascading over walls or in hanging baskets. It has considerable culinary value but the showy heads of pretty deep pink flowers are also of great value, both as a cut flower either fresh or dried. The flowers are most attractive tossed over salads.
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$7.50
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Summer Haze
O. laevigatum cv.
This rare and beautiful form of oregano has small, neat, aromatic foliage and bears in summer prolific airy sprays of light blossom pink tubular flowers haunted by bees and butterflies. Rare.
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$8.50
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Sweet Marjoram or Knotted Marjoram
or Joy of the Mountains
O. marjorana
The fragrance of this soft grey-subshrub is indeed enough to make the heart sing, sweet and delicious and mouthwatering. The leaves used fresh or dried are perfect in savoury dishes of every kind, in sauces, stuffings and poultry dishes, and to add magic to salads and tomato dishes. The little white flowers repay attention, borne in tight symmetrical inflorescences for all the world as if plaited. Very attractive to bees.
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$6.50
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Wild Provence Marjoram O. vulgare
This is a superb culinary marjoram with a delicious aroma and flavour. It is a low growing, creeping. densely bushy form with neat small leaves. Touching it for its wild fragrance is almost irresistible. It is perfect for all savoury uses and is quietly charming in flower. It is cold resistant
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$7.50
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