Lavandula 'Sawyers'

lavender

• Position: full sun
• Soil: moderately fertile, well-drained soil
• Rate of growth: average
• Flowering period: June to August
• Flower colour: pale purple
• Other features: the aromatic flowers and leaves can be used for making pot-pourri
• Hardiness: frost hardy (needs winter protection)
  
  This pretty English lavender has long been sought after, as its evergreen foliage is more silvery than most. From early summer, these silvery mounds are topped with pale purple flower-heads, which provide a very pretty contrast. It makes an excellent, fragrant hedging plant and looks wonderful edging paths or spilling over the front of a border. Ideally suited to sunny, well-drained positions, the flowers make pretty additions to posies and can be added to pot-pourri.
  
  
• Garden care: Cut back the stalks after the flowers have faded. Carefully trim back again in April, taking care not to cut into the old wood.