This page is all about our Lavandula plants – with Lavender information and growing tips, plus special offers as they become available
Lavenders add fragrance and beauty to your garden. The flowers are highly attractive to bees, and excellent for cutting and drying.
They are perfect for patio containers or as a low hedge, where the perfume can be appreciated as you brush past the aromatic evergreen foliage.
For hardy plants choose English types – ‘angustifolia’ or ‘intermedia’, as French ‘stoechas’ are less hardy.
A floral profusion in purple and grey-green
Nothing makes you think of Provence and a sun-drenched Summer like lavender (Lavandula). The plant comes in many forms, offers colours ranging from near white and lilac to deep purple, requires little maintenance and spreads… Continue Reading »
Lavenders are wonderfully fragrant, easy to grow and very appealing plants. How to choose the best lavender for your garden can seem quite a daunting task. To help you decide we have 2 tables below, you can look at how high you… Continue Reading »
This fact sheet will tell you how to grow lavenders and help keep them looking their best throughout the year. Soil and Site
We are always asked how to grow lavenders. Lavenders like well-drained soil in a sunny site that receives sun… Continue Reading »
In general Lavenders require well-drained neutral to alkaline soil, although some of the stoechas forms can grow happily on an acid soil.
The soil that most lavender hates is a wet soil especially in the winter. It is more usual for lavender… Continue Reading »
Lavenders add fragrance and beauty to your garden. The flowers are highly attractive to bees, and excellent for cutting and drying.