Growing lavender 9 Articles

by Sunnysmiles

There are around twenty eight species of lavender and it is one of the most commonest plants that we all associate with essential oils and bathroom products, when we buy toilet blocks, air freshener, essential oils and roo...read more

by Ethel Smith

Most of us think of Lavender as an old ladies and old fashioned perfume. With this in mind, you would probably be surprised to learn that it still appears in masses of modern perfumes, toiletries and cleaning products. It ...read more

by Georgia Macleod

So you want to grow lavender, do you? Lavender (L. augustifolia or common Lavender) is a lovely herb with silvery-green, kind of hairy foliage. It has a light, sweet, woody smell when you rub the leaves. The flowers, de...read more

by Allison Kaye

Saturday, May 5, 2007 Planting Lavendar: Lavande Francoise The tiny, oblong black seeds hug each other in the center of my palm. Fresh out to the neatly labeled seed envelop like little black ants contrasted on a bri...read more

by The Long Island Gardener

A whiff of Lavender, say psychologists, really does calm your nerves. Men prefer rooms that smell like it. People sleep better in bedrooms scented with it. Patients breathing Lavender-spritzed tissue are calmer. ...read more

by Thresia Paulose

GROW WITH A SWEET FRAGRANCE About 2000 years ago Ovid was in lamentation, crying, "Alas, there is no herbs to cure love" But time has proved that there are cures through herbs such as the sweet smelling lavender. The addi...read more

by Paula Countryman

Fragrantly heady, intense smelling lavender, who doesn't love the scent? And who doesn't wish they could grow it as lush looking as the photos in gardening magazines, where row after row of lavender bushes are three feet a...read more

by hummerlover

Growing Lavender Successfully I love lavender! I love all varieties, but most of all I love the more fragrant ones. Contrary to what many people say, lavender is NOT easy to grow! It is very temperamental and requires v...read more

by Beverley Williams

Lavender is a great plant with silver-green foliage all year round and a profusion of flowers all summer. It looks great, bees, butterflies and moths love it, it is rumoured to keep the aphids away (useful near your roses...read more