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

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.

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.

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.

'Lavender is really useful when designing planting schemes,' says landscape designer Helen Elks-Smith. 'Well known as a traditional companion for landscaping with roses and when combined with ...

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 relatively compact lavender with deep purple flowers.

Lavender is a delightful and useful garden plant. It can be used as a drought-tolerant low hedge, a specimen plant, a cut flower, and an herb that provides a fragrant addition to any garden.

Lavender is a challenge for all gardeners to grow here in southeast Louisiana. ... Provence (reportedly tolerant of humid climates), Seal, Empress Purple and Hidcote Giant. Lavandula stoechas, ...