• Eventual Height: 60cm
  • Eventual Spread: 60cm
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Lavender

Lavandula Willow Vale

available to order from autumn 2008 size: 1.5 litre pot £6.99

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  • Position: full sun
  • Soil: fertile, well-drained soil
  • Rate of growth: average
  • Flowering period: June and July
  • Flower colour: purple
  • Other features: the aromatic flowers and leaves can be used for making pot-pourri
  • Hardiness: fully hardy (borderline)

    This French lavender makes a stunning, informal flowering hedge for a sunny, protected site. In frost-prone areas it is best grown as a pot-plant and over-wintered indoors.

  • Garden care: Cut back the stalks after the flowers have faded. Carefully trim back in April, taking care not to cut into old wood.

  • Goes well with: Salvia x sylvestris 'Mainacht', Echinops ritro, Perovskia 'Blue Spire', Stachys byzantina, Artemisia 'Powis Castle', Eryngium giganteum.