IS THIS LAVENDER?
Can anyone advise please?
We moved to a house with a lovely garden 2 years ago. We have tidied it all up and cut back a lot of the bushes last year. and they have all come back looking well except one. There is one which I thought was a lavender as it has leaves which end up being pale to silvery green when fully grown which is later in the year -about now- and also has a purple flower. It smells like lavender . I had cut it right back because the branches were all really old but I thought I had killed it until some new growth appeared not long ago which still have tiny leaves but are still growing.I have looked everywhere for a plant the same in every garden centre I can find but I cannot find this plant anywhere. I wonder if it is a lavender at all. The leaves are a different shape to any lavender plant I have seen in the garden centres.Does anyone have an idea what this plant might be ?
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Certainly not Lavender. Not sure what it is though.
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S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
no, it's not lavender, If it has a strong smell it could be some sort of salvia but I don't recognise it
In the sticks near Peterborough
Is it possible this could be a caryopteris?
I wondered about that from the look but I don't think that smells like lavender? Tell you what, I'll get off my backside and so and have a sniff
Well, it smells of something. Not quite lavender but I think you're right Ceres
In the sticks near Peterborough
Its worth keeping a plant like that. Bees love it.
YES ! This is the plant I have. Thank you so much !!!
I googled a photo and this is how it looks when in full bloom. I wonder why I have not seen it in any of the garden centres? Do you think it will recover fully? Maybe I should not have cut it back so hard.
Last edited: 16 August 2016 11:41:05
Thank you Verdun. I will keep an eye out for these.