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All the simple secrets to growing fragrant, beautiful lavender plants that thrive year after year—even if you've failed ...
She calls it “a petit French lavender farm.” Lisa Fontanarosa, who has been styling and sourcing collections for interior designers since 1997, has a new line featuring her home-grown Grosso ...
Pruning is a little different if you grow French lavender (Lavandula dentata) and it won’t need pruning at this time of year. “These plants are a bit more delicate and don’t handle harsh ...
Beautiful, independent and useful: What more can you ask for in a person, much less a plant ... without lavender. While the English may have embraced lavender, it's the French who have capitalized ...
Millie profiles French and English lavender. Lavender is one of those plants that every gardener will grow in their lives - and why wouldn't you! They're tough, they're beautiful and their flowers ...
French lavender, woolly lavender and their hybrids.Sweet lavender, with its beautiful fragrance, is a common plant of the old-fashioned garden, blooming from July through September. The French ...
Another species called French lavender, L. pedunculata, produces petals that are more narrow and more butterfly-like. This plant has a bushy habit, gray-green leaves, and very attractive flowers.
“Look at the French and English varieties.” She motioned toward hundreds of lavender plants – make that ... caboose at the Olympic Railway Inn, a collection of restored train cars.
The species of moth caterpillars (chenilles in French ... large part of the harvest", one lavender grower and head of the Drôme-Ardèche chapter for perfume-plant producers.
Lavender plants can be a great addition to your garden. The fragrant foliage and flowers will charm you when you catch the scent. They are especially attractive in mass plantings of three or more.
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How To Grow Lavender
There are many good reasons to grow lavender. Bees love it. It smells great. And it will grow in a hot, dry spot in your garden.