Basil cinnamon

Name: Basil cinnamon
Brand: Norseco
SKU: NOR-69-1124-701
Price: 3.49 CAD
Availability: InStock

Ocimum basilicum

Quantity About 100 seeds

Exposure Sun

Family Lamiaceae

Type Herb

Cycle Annual

Internal product code WHPER-0007

Cinnamon basil immediately charms with its aromatic foliage, highlighted by a warm and spicy fragrance subtly reminiscent of cinnamon, a rare originality in both the vegetable patch and containers. This annual herb combines beauty, fragrance, and utility, with its compact and branched habit that fits equally well on a sunny balcony or in a well-ordered herb garden. Highly prized in cooking for flavoring herbal teas, desserts, fruit salads, Asian dishes, or original bouquet garnis, it brings an unexpected and refined touch to summer harvests. In the garden, its presence also attracts pollinators when some flowers are allowed to bloom, while integrating harmoniously among summer vegetables such as tomatoes and peppers. Easy to grow with heat and light, it requires careful sowing, as its young seedlings are sensitive to excess moisture and damping-off. Once well established in rich, fresh, and well-drained soil, it grows quickly and becomes generous with regular harvests and judicious pinching. Its abundant foliage invites you to often pass by it, brush it with your fingertips, and enjoy its gourmet fragrance that transforms the simple act of gardening into a sensory pleasure. Cinnamon basil is thus a variety that is as decorative as it is flavorful, ideal for enriching a characterful aromatic garden.