Lavender plants, with their small purple flowers, make fragrant additions to a flower or herb garden. Lavender can be sown in a mass or with other plants. With a rich fragrant smell, lavender is a natural combined with roses. The scents of rose and lavender complement each other, and it is indeed a popular combination of the best scents.
Lavander brings to mind the Roman lavender and lace Victorian era, but continues to be a popular scent today. times.
Lavender scent is popular in perfumes, colognes, soaps, bath oils and body care products. Lavender flowers are often used in sachets, small bags to cover the smell. Lavender essential oil is commonly used in aromatherapy. The flowers in lavender are not fragrant, the leaves are even more fragrant. On the other hand, brush the lavender plant along the path with your foot, and the plant will give you its scent from its blue-gray leaves.
Lavender is the easiest plant to grow. It takes about three years for the lavender to reach full size. Plants should be pruned every year after flowering. Harvesting and pruning are two different things. Lavender is harvested stalks of lavender cut flowers after they have bloomed and their color is bright and vivid. The flowers can be used in dry arrangements or in a fresh herbal wreath. The flowers can also be plucked from the stems, for use in a potpourri or potpourri.
I like a sunny, well-drained laundry room. Lavender does not thrive in poorly drained soil. Plants can tolerate some shade but grow leggy. In colder climates, plant in a field where the plants receive protection from the sun. Lavender can make a delightful border or hedge in front of taller flowers and plants.
There are different types of lavender. Varieties of lavender have sizes, colors, shapes and scents. There has been a lot of cross-breeding in lavender, so there are some combinations of plant varieties.
Latin Lavender: The most fragrant variety of lavender grows 1 to 3 feet tall, with short, branching stems. Varieties of Latin Lavender include English, Munstede, Hidcote, Hidcote Pink, Jean Davis, Sarah and Vera. English lavender will bloom in mid-late spring. The leaves remain fragrant the rest of the year. The flowers range from purple purple to pale pink, depending on their variety. English lavender is what is commonly called French lavender. The term French lavender simply means lavender grown in France.
Non-Latin Lavenders can seem quite large and uncultivated. Non-Latin lavenders are just as fragrant as Latin lavender. These lavenders include Spanish, Yellow, Sweet, French, Allard, Goodwin, Gray Gray and Woolly Lavender. These lavenders do best with good pruning about four to five weeks into the flowering cycle.
Lavandin English lavender hybrids. They begin to bloom just as English lavenders mature and bloom in mid-summer. There are many flowering plants that smell great. Province, Grosso, Abriali, Fred Boutin, Dutch Mill, Grappenhall, Seal, Hidcote Giant and Albus Grosso are Lavindin varieties. Lavandin are great for terminating a drive or garden line.
Varieties of lavender have small clusters of flowers, bearing slender green stems, with grayish-blue spiced leaves. The plants make great fragrant borders and complement many other flowers flowers.
