Lavender to be sniffed at By New Gardeners
- Lavender leaves, flowers and seed heads smell like aunty’s old perfume (and it obviously why she used lavender oil).
- The English Lavender is the hardiest of Lavender called angistifolia
- Loved by bees they produce stubby spikes on short stems above narrow leaves.
- Taller billowing lavender intermedia and French or Spanish tuffted lavender flowerers are less hardy.
- Trim or prune lavender after they have flowered. The less hardy the less you should prune.