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.
‘Buena Vista’ tops many gardeners’ favorite Lavender list for its unequaled graceful stance plus oodles of sweetly fragrant, saturated purple flowers, blooming both early summer and fall. Not as densely arranged and somewhat more relaxed than most angustifolia species, long slender spikes carry pubescent, intensely dark violet-blue calyces coupled with large, vivid purplish blueberry-colored corollas above a full medium-statured gray-green foundation. Introduced by Don Roberts of Premier Botanicals, this classy, seldom offered English Lavender delivers year-round good looks, yields abundant commercial-grade oil and makes a savory seasoning to boot
Blooms June–mid-September
Size: 18" – 2' 0" high x 18" – 2' 0" wide.
Hardy to zone 5.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Lavandula x ‘Ana Luisa’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Blue River’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Ellagance Purple’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Graves’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Imperial Gem’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Miss Katherine’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Nana Alba’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Peter Pan’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Potpourri White’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Premier’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Purple Bouquet’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Royal Velvet’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Sachet’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Super Blue’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Thumbelina Leigh’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Victorian Amethyst’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Violet Intrigue’
- Lavandula ‘England’
- Lavandula ‘Goodwin Creek Gray’
- Lavandula x intermedia ‘Edelweiss’
- Lavandula x intermedia ‘Exceptional’
- Lavandula x intermedia ‘Gros Bleu’
- Lavandula x x intermedia ‘Grosso’
- Lavandula x intermedia ‘Hidcote Giant’
- Lavandula x intermedia ‘Lullingstone Castle’
- Lavandula x intermedia ‘Phenomenal (‘Niko’) ™’
- Lavandula x intermedia ‘Provence’
- Lavandula x intermedia ‘Super’
- Lavandula x intermedia ‘White Spikes’
- Lavandula ‘Lisa Marie’
- Lavandula ‘Richard Gray’
- Lavandula ‘Silver Frost’
- Lavandula stoechas ‘Helmsdale’
- Lavandula stoechas ‘Ivory Crown’
- Lavandula stoechas ‘Madrid Blue’
- Lavandula stoechas ssp. luisieri ‘Tickled Pink’
- Lavandula stoechas ‘Willow Vale’