Bergamot, Wild

Bergamot is famed for its medicinal qualities and fabulous perfume. This delightful plant produces a mass of mauve-purple blooms with an upright clump forming habit and green toothed leaves.

It performs well in a vegetable patch where it works wonders attracting beneficial insects, and bees of course. It does best in full sun to partial shade and can tolerate a wide variety of conditions from wet to dry. It will perform in poor dry soils and be luxuriant in good soils.

The leaves make a tea, reminiscent of Earl Grey and are excellent for adding to fresh summer fruits drinks The flowers and leaves may be used in salads and pork dishes.

Does best in full sun to partial shade. It can tolerate a wide variety of conditions from wet to dry, will perform in poor dry soils and be luxuriant in good soils. The species has the added advantage of having good resistance to mildew.

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