Pink Perfume Lavender Perfect for Small Yards

The Pink Perfume Lavender Plants are certain to make a show in your yard all summer long. Plant along your front sunny walk way and the Pink Perfume Lavender will greet your guests with its wonderful fragrance. Separate areas of your garden with a low growing hedge of Lavandula angustifolia 'Pink Perfume'  .

The Pink Perfume is perfect for small yards, container gardens, cut flower gardens, and butterfly gardens. Use the rosy pink flower stems as cut flowers or dry for potpourris. Plant in well drained soil. The Pink Perfume Lavender is drought tolerant and blooms from May to September. Pink Perfume attracts bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden.

Introducing the New Cold Hardy Phenomenal Lavender Plant

Introduced in 2012, the Phenomenal Lavender will prove to be one of the hardiest lavenders available. Lavendula x intermedia 'Phenomenal' does not experience winter die back as seen in varieties such as Munstead and Hidcote. With its proven winter survival, the Phenomenal Lavender is hardy as far north as zone 4, which is unusual for lavender plants. 

Phenomenal Lavender was named a 'Must Grow Perennial' for 2013 by Better Homes and Gardens.

The uniform mounded shape of the Phenomenal lavender provides a silvery base for the late spring to early summer blooms of deep blue to purple. Growing 12 to 32 inches tall with a spread of 24 to 32 inches, this hardy new lavender variety will stand up to dry, moist and well drained soils. 

Lavender Tips and Information

The lavender plant is an ancient plant that has been used for medical purposes throughout the ages. Some of the formulas have been passed down through generations to use for fatigue, anxiety, insomnia and depression, not to mention it looks and smells great in your garden. Not only has it been used medically, but it can be used dried, fresh, and as an essential oil in flower arrangements, wreaths, and anything else you want to use lavender for in your home or office.

There are many varieties of lavender plants such as Provence Lavender, Grosso Lavender, Munstead Lavender, and Hidcote Blue Lavender. However, the most widely used is English lavender. Its Latin name is Lavandula angustifolia and ancients have been using it for formal gardens, to relax and calm the nerves for ages.

Today, it’s used in sachets, soap, and lavender dream pillows as well as balms, salves, perfumes, cosmetics, and topical applications. It’s great for wounds from acne or uninfected wounds. Lavender has great antibacterial properties as well as antiviral properties. It’s also use in aromatherapy and hydrotherapy to relax the body, mind, and soul when stress is taking over. There are many way to use lavender for medical purposes, but you can also use it for culinary dishes.

Lately, there have been many recipes involving the lavender plant. The flowers are used for decorations but they can also be added to drinks for a slightly different flavor.  Lavender essential oil is used by massage therapist, chiropractors and acupuncturist. Lavender lifts the mood, reduces anxiety and improves concentration. There are many uses for lavender and the plant can grow in most area.  All it requires is well drained soil, water, and sun. If it’s watered too much the lavender plant will develop root rot and die out. However, it will come back year after year, if treated properly.

It’s best to purchase a lavender plant since the seeds can be hard to start. You can make a lavender border or use it in the herb garden. The smell of the lavender plant is wonderful when walking through the garden. It’s one of the first smells in the spring.

Lavender is grown throughout the world regardless of the climate. They need well drained soil and plenty of sun. If you live in a cooler climate, Hidcote Lavender is well suited for colder areas. If you live in an area that has more humidity, Spanish Lavender plants like that type of environment. It’s not as sweet smelling, but will attract honey bees but other insects tend to leave it alone.  Lavender honey is great for keeping anxiety down, plus, honey is also antibacterial, so they makes lavender honey twice as strong for wounds.

There are over 30 species of lavender plants you can use in your garden. Not all of them have medical properties and can be used in culinary dishes, but they can be used as ornamental plant in any type of garden.  You can use you lavender plant for bouquet and wreaths as well as magic wands and dream pillows. Lavender is one of the most used plants, not only for the scent, but it medical properties, as well.

Growing Lavender

If you have never grown lavender in your garden or landscape, you are
missing out on the most fragrant plants available. My experience with
lavenders is that they are ever dedicated to making my garden a mysterious,
magical wonderland and me a better person because of it. This may sound
pretty far out there, but if you have lavender in your garden, you know what
I mean.
We have a small sitting area on the perimeter of my garden (next to the
house) where Steve and I sit looking out over our garden. I have lavender
growing along the fence (its amazing as a low hedge) and in groups on the
berm in front of the sitting area and lavender plants sprinkled throughout
the garden.
During summer and early fall evenings, we enjoy this enchanted world right
in front of us. A soft summer evening breeze brings entrancing smells of
lavender as nature comes to life. Bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds are
all attracted to the lavender buds. If a garden were an amusement park then
lavender would certainly be the roller coaster.
Greenwood has lots going on with lavender this spring. We are offering some
wonderfully new varieties. In addition to our regular English Lavenders of
Munstead and Hidcote, we are adding the Jean Davis which is has blooms so
soft pink they almost look white. The Kew Red blooms look like tiny
pineapples which is typical of the Spanish Lavenders. Grosso and Provence
are amazingly fragrant French Hybrid Lavenders.
The English Lavenders are early bloomers beginning in mid to late spring.
Once they complete their first round of blooming, they begin again. So if
you want all season blooming, plant Munstead, Hidcote and Jean Davis. The
Hidcote Lavender grows especially well in cooler climates.
Spanish Lavenders typically bloom around mid to late spring. They are also
referred to as Rabbit Ears or Butterfly Lavender because of the petals at
the top of the bloom. The blooms are not as sweet as other lavender
varieties so they will not attract swarms of fliers, yet honeybees seem to
enjoy them. This variety is note worthy, also because it performs better in
humid areas than other lavenders.
French Hybrids are cultivars of Lavandin (lavandula x intermedia) which are
cultivated mostly in France for their oils. Both Grosso and Provence are
excellent choices for strong fragrant buds and for craft projects such as
drying for bouquets and wands. Grosso is especially cold hardy.
The favorite edible varieties are Munstead, Jean Davis and Provence.
Here is a short video that I have put together with tips on growing
lavender. A little advance planning makes Lavender really easy to grow and
even easier to enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/user/GreenwoodNursery
What better way to enjoy the fruits of your labor once your lavender begins
blooming than to toast to your plants with a glass of wine. A red table wine
would be perfect as it also carries the taste of lavender in the wine.
Mmmmm, delish!
All of our lavender varieties will begin shipping the first week in March.
Book your order now and take advantage of our Lavender Preview Sale saving
you 20% off the regular member pricing. This offer is good through Sunday,
January 17th and available only to our Greenwood Gardener's Club Members
which means you do have to be a member to access the Monthly Value Page
section.
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Until next time.......Cheryl