You can make more African blue basil plants by rooting cuttings in water (extra plants are nifty gifts for friends). In USDA ...

Blue Spice, Spice and Blue Spice F1 (O. americanum) are less susceptible. • Don't plant basil in the same spot year after year. If you grow basil in a pot, ...

If I had to single out a single plant to recommend for every Southern California garden, African blue basil (Ocimum kilimandscharicum x basilicum) would be it. It is a hybrid between camphor basil ...

Basil is in the mint family of plants and there are 60 species of annuals, perennials and shrubs, native to Africa and tropical and subtropical regions of the Old and New World.

For Trina Pilonero, basil is a broad subject. The proprietor of Silver Heights Farm, she grows nearly two dozen varieties of the herb in Sullivan County, bringing the plants – along with othe… ...

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.

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit. Although kiwi vines generally need a colder winter than Southern California’s in order to flower and fruit, the Fuzzy Jenny variety needs only ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit. Although kiwi vines generally need a colder winter than Southern California’s in order to flower and fruit, the Fuzzy Jenny variety needs only 100 ...