Compact evergreen lavender with aromatic silvery leaves and purple/blue flowers in summer. Highly fragranyt
Plant in any well-drained soil in full sun
Height & Spread: 0.5 x 1m
Lavender is such a remarkable choice of herb to grow in your garden. It is loved by bees in summertime and emits a beautiful scent for months on end. Lavender is widely grown, often planted as edging for beds or grown to form an attractive low growing hedge. Lavender flowers also make wonderful, dried flower arrangements and add a relaxing scent to your home.
Lavender, a perennial herb, is known the world over for its healing properties, it is nick named the ‘first aid in a bottle oil’, it produces an essential oil that has inherent antibiotic action. Lavender essential oil has a calming scent and has been claimed to help treat many medical ailments, even including insomnia. It can be cut and dried and popped in your pillowcase to aid a restful night’s sleep!
Lavandula ‘Munstead’ is an impressive compact evergreen shrub, that truly marks the scent of summer. It grows up to 45 cm tall, with narrow, grey-green foliage and spikes of small, highly fragrant, blue-purple flowers in mid to late summer.