Amazing Lavender!

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Lavender is enormously popular for beauty products, medicinal and culinary uses, but not all lavender is created equal.

Typically when most people think about Lavender  they usually expect the flower to be in the purple color range.  This is untrue when it comes to the many Lavender plant varieties!  There are many color varieties ranging from spring green to the deepest purple imaginable. There are also whites, pinks, indigo, yellow and even red. I have still yet to find a red lavender plant! Yellow Lavender Seeds

Lavender likes a sunny, open location in which to grow, and thrives on well drained soil. It is drought tolerant, and naturally pest resistant. There is a variety available to thrive in almost any gardening zone.

English Lavender  (Lavendula Augustifolia) is the species most people associate with the name “lavender.” Generations of gardeners have grown English lavender for both its scent and as a medicinal and culinary herb. The shrub is a perennial plant, grows 2 to 3 feet high and typically has purple flowers, although certain cultivated varieties have white or pink flowers.

French Lavender  (Lavendula dentata) is less fragrant than the English variety. Grown primarily for ornamental or decorative purposes, the plant has toothed gray leaves that are about 1-inch long and grow up to 3 feet high. The purple flowers are approximately 3/8-inch long. Despite its name, the plant is common throughout Spain. It flourishes in warm, temperate climates.

Spanish lavender (Lavendula stoechas) produces distinctive pinecone-shaped flowers and has lance-shaped leaves. Spanish lavender does not make a good culinary herb and is grown primarily as an ornamental. It thrives in humid climates and can tolerate a more acidic soil than most other types of lavender. The flowers are used in the dried flower industry.

Lavandin (Lavendula hybridia) is a hybrid variety propagated from two different lavender species, English and spike lavender. It has larger leaves and reaches a greater height than its English lavender parent. Lavandin also has a greater concentration of oil than English lavender and is grown commercially for this reason. Lavandin is sterile and requires vegetative propagation to reproduce. In this technique, horticulturalists create a clone of the original plant by nurturing a root, stem or branch of the plant under optimal conditions.

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