Hyssop cultivation

How to grow hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis)

HYSSOP

flower

June – September. Flowers blue or violet in spikes. Very outstanding stamens standing out of the corolla. Narrow leaves, lanceolate, pointed. Perennial grass of mediterranean origin, up to 70 cm.

water

Regularly. Not very abundantly in winter.

GARDENING POT

For flowerbeds in poor soils. It is cultivated as an industrial plant for the elaboration of perfumes, vermouths and aromatic oils. As a medicinal plant, with specially antiseptic properties. The leaves to flavour meals.

weather

Sun

SHOVEL

By means of seeds in autumn or by means of cuttings in summer. It is convenient to prune the whole plant in spring.

SOIL

Well drained soil, fertile and loamy, although it can also grow in calcareous poor soils.

* Related information: Hyssop properties

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22 January, 2020

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