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.
First spotted by Kiwis Elsie and Brian Hall as a markedly unique seedling in a bed of Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote', 'Thumbelina Leigh' is distinctive for its compact spherical habit and short sturdy well-branched flower wands, offering a vibrant highly aromatic profusion of dense two-toned blooms. The sweet smelling rounded blossoms feature deep purple pubescent calyxes plus large corollas, colored both a bright violet-blue and dark lavender-violet. A stellar addition to path edges, the rockery, knot gardens and containers, the small impeccably formed gray-green mound celebrates a flowery encore if you shear one-third of its mass after the first bloom.
Blooms July–August.
Size: 12" – 15" high x 12" – 15" wide.
Hardy to zone 5.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Lavandula x ‘Ana Luisa’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Blue River’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Buena Vista’
- 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 ‘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’
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