- Up for sale is English lavender, Lavandula agustifolia, 100 seeds.
- Wonderfully fragrant, this popular lavender will bloom throughout the summer if deadheaded. The scent of this violet-blue flower permeates the air during the warm weather months, when dried, the flowers are widely used in potpourris and arrangements. Very easy to grow and Maintenace free.
- Lavender needs dry conditions that mimic the Mediterranean to the south of France. If you live in a moist-humid place like Florida, they definitely will not grow. They prefer a hot, dry, rocky almost desert like environment. That said, they do great here in Seattle as long as they get very good drainage.
- Lavender is great for cut flowers-dried flowers, they are bee and butterfly friendly and wonderfully fragrant'. They are great for mass plantings, extended bloom time, (more than four weeks) multiplies/naturalizes, evergreen, low Maintenace, pretty foliage, deer and rabbit resistant and a great mosquito repellant. A must have.
- Perennial, evergreen.
- Zone: 5-9
- Sun: full sun
- Water: regular to low.
- Soil: well-draining soil.
- Height: 1 1 1/2'-2' tall.
- Bloom time: summer
- Difficultly: easy