Fothergill's Lavender French Lavender Seeds

Details:

• Botanical Name: Lavandula stoechas, often traditionally referred to as "Rabbit Ears" or Papillon Lavender due to its distinctive floral wings.
• Plant Class: Hardy Shrub, establishing a permanent, woody framework that delivers aromatic structure and colour year after year.
• Growth Habit: Reaches a balanced medium height of 60cm (24in) with a compact, bushy habit, making it ideal for low structural hedging, pathway edging, or dedicated herb planters.
• Visual & Sensory Appeal: Comprises beautifully narrow, aromatic silver-grey leaves that release a rich scent when brushed against, topped with small purple flowers and crown-like, rose-purple tufted bracts.
• Sunlight Position: Thrives best when positioned in full sun, which mimics its native Mediterranean environment, concentrates its essential oils, and intensifies the bloom colours.
• Wildlife Friendly: Highly attractive to bees and butterflies, serving as an absolute favourite destination for local garden pollinators throughout the summer months.
• Overwintering: Naturally tough, these plants are often reliably winter-hardy across the UK, especially when given a little winter protection from freezing, waterlogged ground.

Care & Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Position: Sow under cover in gritty, free-draining compost. French Lavender requires exceptional drainage to flourish and resents sitting in heavy, wet clay soil over winter.
• Maintenance: An excellent low-maintenance and drought-tolerant choice once established. Trim the plants back lightly in late summer after flowering to remove the spent seed heads and maintain a neat, bushy, compact shape for the following spring.