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.
Raised by Lavender authority Dr. Don Roberts, this bushy gray-green cultivar bears cylindrical flower heads housing large, vibrant violet-blue corollas with lighter throats plus fuzzy plush purple and green calyces on slim, semiupright, 12 in. stalks. Well-suited for gardens short on space, the comely midsized habit can be massed or planted amid equally tough companions like Calamagrostis ‘Cheju-Do’ and Perovskia ‘Lacey Blue’. Versatile ‘Sachet’ renders a piquant seasoning and a surplus of high-quality oil, while its sweetly scented blooms are added to most sachets.
Blooms June & August
Size: 2-1/3' high x 3' 0" wide.
Zone 5b.
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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 ‘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’
