Description: The variety is African blue basil. It is a decorative plant, which, if allowed to bloom, is covered with long flower stems of purple buds that open to lavender flowers. The 1- to 2 1/ ...

Thai basil is the one you find in Asian dishes, where its purple/green leaves give a hint of anise. It’s similar in flavor to African Blue basil, a tender perennial.

Judy Benning and I bonded over African blue basil. She had it. I wanted it. That makes for the start of a beautiful relationship.

Like many other hybrid plants, African blue basil is sterile, which helps to explain its extravagant flowering; when a plant does not form seeds, there is more energy to devote purely to flowering.

African Blue Basil, Ocimum kilimandscharicum x basilicum Whether you garden in-ground or in a single windowbox, there is a plant that will lure every pollinator in the neighborhood to your green space ...

Like many other hybrid plants, African blue basil is sterile, which helps to explain its extravagant flowering; when a plant does not form seeds, there is more energy to devote purely to flowering. In ...