Herbs: show off your herb garden!!!, 1 by bonehead

bonehead wrote:
Podster, that lovely plant is Eupatorium rugosum, chocolate boneset. One of my favorites. It starts out with vivid red stems, then fills in with chocolate leaves, and finishes up with sprays of white blossoms in the fall as its leaves turn. Gets about 3' tall for me, stands on its own without staking, looks good at the foot of the taller Joe Pye or next to echinachea (they complement each other). Here's a photo of the flowers with the faded leaves in the background. One of those nice multi-season plants.