Lavender Hidcote One of the best-known varieties of English lavender! No summer garden should be without this traditional favourite! Be creative with your lavender: its mounds of fragrant grey-green foliage are ideal for borders, hedging, in pots, or in combination with other architectural plants such as agapanthus. Hang bunches of flowers to dry & use it in potpourri indoors. Supplied in a 9cm pot. Hidcote
- It's dense, intensely aromatic, silver-grey foliage is covered, in summer, with spikes of fragrant, deep violet flowers. Height 60cm. Middle of border variety. With garden plants, as with so much else, new is not always better, & that certainly applies to Lavenders, where new varieties seem to be introduced every year. Hidcote, named after the famous garden in Gloucestershire, has been around for fifty years or more, & is tough & hardy, with a dense compact habit, grey-green leaves & masses of erect spikes profusely covered with deep violet-blue flowers, filling the air with fragrance & always attractive to bees.