This long dry season calls for a portfolio approach, hedging your bets rather than root-and-branch restructuring ...

What's better than one blooming lavender plant? A whole lavender garden! Here are some of the most beautiful lavender ...

My feeling is one can never have enough lavender in a garden. I have lavender in my perennial bed and my herb garden. Two favorites are “Munstead” and “Hidcote.” Both are Lavandula ...

Hidcote lavender has deep, violet-blue flowers and silver-gray foliage. Its growth habit reaches to about two feet tall. Munstead’s flowers are lighter in color and foliage is a gray-green color ...

My feeling is one can never have enough lavender in a garden. I have lavender in my perennial bed and my herb garden. Two favorites are “Munstead” and “Hidcote.” Both are Lavandula ...

My feeling is one can never have enough lavender in a garden. I have lavender in my perennial bed and my herb garden. Two favorites are “Munstead” and “Hidcote.” Both are Lavandula ...

Whatever your garden style there's always room for some landscaping with lavender. It's equally at home planted in loose drifts in a Mediterranean or cottage garden, and works well clipped into ...

Lavender is a lovely and popular flowering herb. The lavender I grow in my garden is Lavandula angustifolia, also known as English Lavender. The variety I have is called Hidcote, which is a ...

When selecting plants for an outdoor space, it’s easy to let your eyes do the picking. While pots of bold, colorful flowers always cheer up an outdoor space, don’t overlook another key sense: ...

Lavender Lady is excellent for garden use. Hidcote and Royal Velvet hybrids yield shorter-stemmed flowers but retain an excellent blue color when dried.