Origanum x 'Kent Beauty' - ORNAMENTAL OREGANO 'KENT BEAUTY'

Smaller and cute tender perennial, often used as annual - continuously flowers from June to September with pendulous papery pink-white-green flowers (can be used in dried mixes).

Forms small mounds of trailing stems, semi-evergreen sub-shrub. Aromatic, but not suitable for cooking. 

For zones 6-9 (but isn't always reliably hardy in zone 6). Very heat and drought tolerant.

Award of Garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society (RHS Britain).

Blooming Time: June to September 
Size: 0.5-0.75' tall x 0.7-1' wide 
USDA Zones: 6-9, heat zones 5-8
Culture: sun, prefers medium to medium-dry, to dry soil, excellent for drained soils (sandy, gravely, gritty).
Moisture Needs: dry, medium-dry, medium
Origin: hybrid of Origanum rotundifolium (native to the rocky, mountainous regions of Turkey, Armenia, and Georgia) and Origanum scabrum (native to mountains of Greece). Often sold as Origanum rotundifolium 'Kent Beauty'
Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes/yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: bees and butterflies
Attracts Hummingbirds: not
Pot Size: 3.5" x 4" perennial pot (1.22 pt/580 ml)

Picture copyright: K M, Flickr

Plant combinations: In warmer zones can be used as perennial, in cooler as annual. Best in Mediterranean style gardens, coastal gardens, containers, baskets, rock gardens, crevice gardens. Good companions can be shorter drought tolerant perennials like : Amorpha, Callirhoe, shorter Coreopsis, Dalea, narrow-leaved hybrids of Echinacea, Monarda bradburiana, short Rudbeckia, Yucca or grasses like shorter Festuca, Koeleria, shorter selections of Schizachyrium scoparium, Sporobolus 'Tara', Muhlenbergia.