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.
Cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
She knows she's the chocolate girl
Cause she's broken up and swallowed
And wrapped in bits of silver
no, it's not lavender, If it has a strong smell it could be some sort of salvia but I don't recognise it
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
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.