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Choose your garden oregano carefully. Even among the edible varieties there is a wide range. Debbie W. of Sebastopol asks: What is the difference between culinary and ornamental oregano? The most ...

What good is an oregano you can't put in the spaghetti sauce? How about one that spreads a low carpet of purple over sunny gardens in August and September? How about an oregano that the deer, ...

Dear Master Gardener: My friend had a beautiful plant last summer in her window boxes called ornamental oregano. What can you tell me about it? Answer: Ornamental oregano (Origanum), which is a ...

An array of different plants in hanging baskets - Dmitrii Marchenko/Getty Images Hanging baskets are a great way to bring vertical color and new dimension to your yard. They can decorate otherwise ...

Getting anything to grow on a broken, concrete wall that faces direct south sun – the hottest spot in my garden by far – is pretty difficult. In fact, for a long ...

Need something that looks dramatic and different but is easy to grow? Hopflower oregano is a trailing ornamental oregano that's vigorous and has interesting flowers that resemble hops, or paper ...

One of my mainstay perennials is ornamental oregano. Showy rose or purple flowers peek out from papery bracts that resemble hops. And their summer show continues for many weeks. I’m told that the ...

My alphabet theme of gardening topics continues during this week. Ornamental oregano is one of my new favorite perennials in my garden! This unique plant is in the genus Origanum, specifically named ...

Ornamental oregano 'Kent Beauty' stumped me. I wanted it so bad. In mean, bad enough to plant it five times. Every summer, the plant straggled along and over winter turned up its toes, or, in this ...

OREGANO IS AT HOME in the herb garden, tucked in among edible crops, or used to outline edges in perennial beds and borders. A few years ago, I looked around my garden in early July and counted ...

Hanging baskets are a great way to bring vertical color and new dimension to your yard. They can decorate otherwise dull porches and decks, and there are loads of beautiful plant options to pick from.