"With this native, you get bright wine-colored flowers on a thick mat of sprawling gray-green foliage," says Chris Fifo, Product Representative for Darwin Perennials and National Garden Bureau member.

What: Rosa “Purple Splash” provides the garden with more than just its interesting wine-colored blooms, but also produces flowers that are veined and splashed with white. Additionally, the 4 ...

It has long upright wands of wine-colored flowers and blooms on and off throughout the growing season. In truth, the leaves of all California native sages are fragrant to one degree or another.

1. Borage. Both the star-shaped blooms, which come in deep shades of blue, violet and pink, and the leaves of the borage plant offer a flavor reminiscent of cucumber, with grassy undertones.

"With this native, you get bright wine-colored flowers on a thick mat of sprawling gray-green foliage," says Chris Fifo, Product Representative for Darwin Perennials and National Garden Bureau member.