Best Lavender for Your Garden
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Which type of lavender is best for your garden? It depends on what you want. If your climate is agreeable, English lavender (L. angustifolia) is an excellent choice, and to my nose it has the finest fragrance. For something similar but a little bolder, there's Lavandin (L. x intermedia) growing a little taller in general and with a stronger camphor-like scent. If you're all about the flowers, you could hardly do better than Spanish lavender (L. stoechas). I'll also throw in a handful of recommendations for warmer climates.
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Photo credits:
L. angustifolia flowers (with butterfly) by Emőke Dénes CC BY-SA 4.0
L. x chaytorae by Couleur Lavande CC BY-ND 2.0
L. multifida by Forest & Kim Starr CC BY-SA 3.0
Lavandin flower by Julien FourCC BY-SA 2.0
Phenomenal and Sweet Romance courtesy of Walter's Gardens - Навчання та стиль
Germinating lavender seeds was a challenge for me as an amateur gardener. 1/48 sprouted, even with cold stratification. Fortunately that one plant is doing well.
Love having both the English and Lavandin to cover the entire summer with their incredible scent.
Knowing your climate is so important because sometimes no matter what you do certain plants simply cannot survive in a particular region.
I would love to have all three main types of lavender, but the Egyptian is just not suited for the drastic weather changes up here. In fact many of the plants that have been doing great so far are really struggling at the moment because the wind is incessant this time of year and there is usually quite a bit of rain along with it, but not this year. So dry.
Of course this is typical of the high desert area I live in, but it is so important to understand what those changing conditions are and very likely could be in any particular season.
Always good to know that more options are becoming available.
Thanks for the quick video Jason.🤙
I have a 20 plant hedge of Vera I started from seed last year. In a few weeks I will be adding a hedge of both Hidcote and Melissa, started from seed this year. One of my favorite plants! 🪻
As always thank you Jason! Lavender is near the top of my wish list this year. I’ve got a yellow legal pad scribbled full of info from watching your channel. It’s a bit raggedy but goes with me when I’m plant shopping. Cheers!
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Absolutely
I love sensational lavender
Thanks - I've been waiting for a more compact version of 'Phenomenal', and will be getting some 'Sensational' this year.
Nice video. I have grown all three types for decades. If you were to make a video of how to prune lavender to maintain a nice shape that would be appreciated! Also I just want to mention that I've given up growing Spanish lavender as a perennial as too many winters we get a cold snap that kills them. So I look at them as an annual in my zone 7 garden.
Thanks for mentioning that. They say Spanish is hardy to zone 7, but your experience matches what I've heard about its winter survival.
Thanks for the information, Jason. I’ve grown all 3 varieties in my garden over the past 4 years. The Spanish was the shortest lived and didn’t come back after the 1st season. The lavandin (Grosso), lasted 2 seasons, but I like the Hidcote the best. It has a smaller/tidier habit and I’ve had no issues with it surviving the winter in zone 7. I’ve also been able to save seeds from it and grow new plants from that seed successfully (winter sowing method)
I have 2 rows of Spike lavender - about 65 plants - in SoCal high scrub (zone 8b). There are cold snaps and snow, but the summers are very hot, dry and windy. I have them set up with drip irrigation. Tried Vera and Munstead and the rabbits tore through them. I covered the Spike for about a year with wire, then the rabbits left it alone. I started it all from seed and had a strong success rate...better than 85% at least. Grew them in seed trays with domes in a spare bedroom with some repurposed shop lights. The scent from the Spike is strong, and it makes good hydrasol; the oil yield is not great though. If producing oil a Grosso would be a better choice. Thanks for the video!! Lavender is awesome to grow.
Perfect timing, Jason.
Perfect timing for this video. Thank you!!
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Interesting run through. Thanks. I've tried a taller white variety years ago and more recently a variegated pale lavender, both of which were very floppy and messy looking for me. I absolutely love Hidcote for its bolder colour and dense tidy form. I started lavender from seed this year for the first time, just to give it a try. And I took cuttings to start new plants this spring, inspired by your previous videos! I should have a lavender forest with even a 50 percent success rate 😊
Thanks. A lot of the breeding on the English varieties has been focused on compactness, but the Lavandins still have a ways to go. 'Phenomenal' has been the go-to for a while, but they have a new more compact version from the same breeding called 'Sensational' that looks promising.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm I have planted just that ("sensational") after quite a bit of research. The plants are super young so it is still too early to draw conclusions. Hopefully they will like the weather in the North of England!
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Thanks for the info. I'll watch out for Sensational.
Thank you Jason. 💐💚🙃 maybe I’ll try to find all three types of lavender to see which I like best. 💐💚🙃
Good call. I also like the L. x chaytorae 'Silver Sands' a lot - overwintered nicely here.
Jason , I grow Grosso lavender here in Texas.
Thanks, good to know!
Nice video Jason, good explanation!
Good topic!
Thanks for this
Lavandin has more camphor than the English varieties. Here in my Colorado garden, Lavandin is not as long lived. The English also reseeds nicely.
My favorite is Grosso, it winterizing great, grows beautifully. I love Anouk too, but didn’t try to grow it yet. I don’t like Phenomenal lavenders they don’t grow too well in my experience and dying in couple years.
Great explanation, just what I was wondering recently ❤
Thank you for this video!
Our pleasure!
Thank you.
Great video,where can we buy these different variety I’ve been looking for sweet romance labender
Depends on your region. Exemplar, where we made the video, is a wholesale nursery that serves garden centers mainly in Western Canada so far, but 'Sweet Romance' is a Proven Winners variety, so likely to be in many of the independent garden centers.
Oh, dear. Stoechas is being marketed as a French lavender here in the UK.
Definitely some confusion in the marketing or common names. I've seen in marketed as Spanish or French here, but confusingly L. dentata is also called French lavender at times. I'm pretty sure even English lavender is a misnomer in its origins! So the only sure way to know we're talking about the same plant is with Latin names.
Nothing for zone 3? Even with a protective micro climate and winter mulching?
With enough protection, you can stretch zones quite a bit, but I can't say I'm optimistic about a zone 5 lavender in zone 3. But nothing stopping you from trying!
I killed all three of my lavender plants in one afternoon. I will buy some new ones soon. Maybe I won't over-prune them next time. They certainly were delightful.
Sir, what about "culinary" lavender for baking and cooking. Thank you.
Generally it's L. angustifolia (English Lavender)
What soil mix do they like?
They're pretty adaptable so long as the drainage is good
Any lavender that’s hardy to zone 4? Thanks
Not so far as I've been able to find. English and Lavandin are expected to go down to zone 5, so possibly with higher levels of winter protection, but nothing I'd rely on in the landscape unprotected.
I’m in mid northern Ontario ( used to be zone 4a or b …now zone 5). I’ve had Munstead for about 10 years - full sun, well drained soil.
Is there any lavender for zones 6 to 7?
Two of the three types (English and Lavandin) are hardy down to zone 5, so they're plenty hardy for higher zones. Spanish is hardy only to zone 7, so iffy for 6
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm thank you, Jason!
So I live in Utah , the ones that come back reliably are the English types, I especially like growing a white flowered one called edelweiss, platinum blonde, I like because it’s got a variegated leaf, all the English ones seem to do well, the French ones come back unless we have very wet winters and the Spanish types just get planted like annuals. Hope this helps
@@maryannjordan8143 Thank you so much for sharing this info! I am going to try growing the Edelweiss!
@@TheMitzyBitzy I think it has the best scent and the flowers are beautiful, it does grow taller than some of the newer varieties but it holds up to the snow and the heat beautifully.
I found some fern leaf lavender at my local nursery. I opted out because i wasnt into the scent. It smelled like cat piss with a hint of the traditional scent.
Yeah - to my nose, nothing beats L. angustifolia (English lavender). The Lavandin are pretty close though.