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Favourite Lavender?

MeomyeMeomye Posts: 849
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Which Lavender would you recommend re fragrance and colour please? I am looking to replace some that have become old and leggy. Many thanks.

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  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 883
    One of my favourites is Hidcote. It’s quite compact and the flowers are a lovely rich purple.
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • Cambridgerose12Cambridgerose12 Posts: 1,119
    'Imperial Gem' was one that stood out for me on a visit to the Heacham show fields of Norfolk Lavender years ago, though I've never grown it. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,826
    A new favourite here is ‘Miss Katherine’ 
    https://fairweathers.co.uk/product/lavender-angustifolia-miss-katherine/

    Extremely floriferous, flowers last ages and ages, great perfume and the bees love it. I just clip it back once at the end of the summer and after several years it’s still a nice sticky mound and not at all leggy. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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