Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia
Description
The sweet fragrant purple flowers are excellent for drying, making oils, or used along pathways to be brushed up against. Lavender is a great plant to use as a flowering hedge, and the bumblebees love it. We offer many different types of hardy lavender including:
Lavandula angustifolia (English lavender): Common lavender, or true lavender with great cold hardiness (zone 5). Wispy, early to mid summer purple/violet/pink blooms. 2-3ft tall and wide. ex Hidcote, or Munstead.
Lavandula x intermedia (hybrid lavender): Great cold tolerance and heat tolerance. Grows in a shrubby compact mound about 2.5 feet tall and wide. Extremely aromatic.
Lavandula Latifolia (Portuguese lavender): Stronger scent than traditional English lavender but not quite as cold hardy (zone 6). Pale lilac colored flowers with profuse blooming 1-3 feet tall and wide
- Botanical Name
- Lavandula angustifolia
- Height
- 8-24"
- Width
- 12-24"
- Sun Exposure
- Full Sun Partial Sun
- Soil Type
- Alkaline Well Draining
- Bloom Time
- Early Summer Mid Summer Late Summer
- Foliage Colors
- Blue Light Green Silver
- Water Requirements
- Low