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A beautiful, fragrant herb
Lavender is an easy to grow, evergreen shrub that produces masses of beautifully scented lavender coloured flowers above green foliage. Most commonly known for its relaxing effects on the body.
Number of plants: 3
Variety: Hidcote (organic*)
Great for protecting your tomatoes, chillies and aubergines!
In the Kitchen: Lavender adds wonderful flavour to sweet delights such as syllabub, panna cotta, homemade ice-cream, cakes or shortbread biscuits.
Full sunshine and well drained, sandy soil are the things that lavender needs.
Anywhere as long as it has good drainage…containers work well as you can bring them in when it’s wet weather.
50cm apart or one plant to a pot.
Lavender is a Mediterranean plant so here in the UK we need to try and recreate this climate to get the best results.
A little trim every so often during spring and summer will keep your lavender looking good.
Lavender prefers dry conditions so be careful not to overwater.
Cutting your lavender plant back to half its size in the autumn will give it a better chance the following year.
Lavender is not very popularly used in cooking in this country, but it has one or two uses that you should definitely give a go if you have a sweet tooth…try it with:
