Lavandula ‘Goodwin Creek Gray’ at Digging Dog Nursery

Lavandula

Lavender

In the Middle Ages, Lavender was a chief ingredient in the famous “Four Thieves” vinegar, and today no classic sachet or potpourri would be complete without it. Dependable and drought tolerant, their strikingly handsome flowers, offer a heady aroma and an upright spiky look, while the foliage forms a pleasing year-round mound. In the herb garden, border or rockery, they combine well with grasses, perennials or other shrubs. If the plants are cut back in late June, many cultivars will produce a second bloom in autumn.

Lavandula ‘Goodwin Creek Gray’

Lavandula ‘Goodwin Creek Gray’ (S-0109)

Each 11.25

Arising as a chance seedling between Lavandula lanata and Lavandula dentata at Jim and Dotti Becker’s Goodwin Creek Gardens in Oregon, this winsome strong-growing hybrid hosts slim lanky leaves with distinctive irregular toothed margins and a woolly whitish gray finish. The compact soft-looking ensemble emits a pleasant earthy whiff beneath long and slender, dense florescent violet-blue spikes that unfurl nearly year-round where winters are mild. More tolerant of heat and humidity than most Lavenders, but not as cold hardy, long-lived ‘Goodwin Creek Gray’ tempts hummingbirds, butterflies, honey bees and bumble bees plus offers striking contrast amid water-wise chums like Bupleurum or Phlomis samia.

Blooms June–October

Size: 2' 0" – 3' 0" high x 2' 0" – 3' 0" wide.

Zone 7b/8.

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