When horticulture and high fashion meet, the results are chic, stylish and definitely delicious.

Horticulture and high fashion have mingled to make a newfangled marque for independent plant retailer and their customers .   Hort Couture , in association with C. Raker & Sons , put together a sophisticated blending of plant life for its 2010 time of year and the result are chic , stylish and definitely delicious .

In other spring I was invited   to take part in the Hort Couture sample program and I jumped at the chance to examine so many fresh plants in my garden . One of the free six packs I received was the Culinary Couture sample distribution ingroup that included three salvia ‘ La Crema ’ plant life .

The teaching with the sampler recommended using the salvia as an ornamental in the garden or combine it with other plants in a   assorted container to tally color and grain . Because I was already short on garden distance , I plant the salvia in   good deal and used them as accents in my large patio garden .

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I make out any plant life that ’s as beautiful as it is operable and ‘ La Crema ’ fits this verbal description absolutely . Its unusual variegated leaves are light salvia fleeceable with   creamy yellow touches around each folio .

Like other sages I ’ve grow , this one is aromatic , but its discernment is less intense . I ’ve enjoyed using the smart leaf in a   number of summer - time recipes , like sage pesto , but I ’m also dry some with plans for using it to flavor   my salvia stuffing at Thanksgiving .

The folks at Hort Couture say ‘ La Crema ’ is a form of the democratic Berggarten Sage , a variety that ’s particularly cover not to produce flowers .

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The ‘ La Crema ’ I have grow seems quite hardy . It has   stood up to red-hot , ironical solar day without wilting and is equally perky following a drenching rain . Because it does n’t take to flower , this variety has systematically produced unexampled leafage throughout the season .

I ’d recommend ‘ La Crema ’ to any gardener who wish to habituate fresh herbs in cooking and is always on the lookout for something new or unlike . The Hort Couture marketing program is feature   at independent retailers in some domain of the country and is identifiable by its attractive signage featuring the fashion - based picture holler Lady Couture .

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‘La Crema’ Sage makes a beautiful, variegated statement in the garden as either a landscape plant or as a useful specimen plant on the patio.Photo/Illustration: Jodi Torpey

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