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Lavender plants from Blooming Direct

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Blooming Direct has a huge selection of lavender plants available. Lavender is a highly scented plant that looks fantastic in the summer with lots of beautiful blue or purple flowers. It’s a lovely plant to have at the borders of your garden or next to paths where you’ll get the smell of lavender from just brushing past.
It needs light pruning to keep it in shape. You can cut and dry the flowers and either use them in dried flower decorations or collect the flower heads and use in pot-pourri and lavender bags. Throw a few flower heads into your bath to release the essential oils and give your bath a relaxing touch!
Lavender is a lovely cottage garden plant that the bees love too!

4 Mixed Lavender x 20 Plants
4 Mixed Lavender x 20 Plants £19.95
The connoisseur’s lavender collection! This great value pack of 20 young lavender plants includes 5 each of English Hidcote, French Kew Red, Munstead and Rosea. Plant together to make a stunning lavender display or spread the beautiful scent around the garden! We offer FREE delivery on all orders!

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Fragrant lavender

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

I adore Lavender – it’s a lovely plant that looks fantastic, smells great and give your colour and form in the garden and you can pick the flower stems and bring them indoors too!

Fragrant Butterfly Lavender is well worth planting in your own garden or allotment. It keeps the bees happy too!

Lavendula Hidcote Blue is another one worth getting for a different colour lavender with  fragrant, deep violet summer flowers and aromatic, silvery-grey leaves making it a great english lavender

Place lavender by the edges of paths and you’ll find each time you brush past it’ll release some of it’s scent which will fill you wth pleasure each time you go by!

Lavender is used to make a relaxing essential oil and its scent should be very calming. You can use lavender to flavour some desserts, or use sprigs of it in your bath water for a lovely scent.

It prefers a sunny, well-drained space in your garden and should be trimmed back after flowering too!