Old Fashioned English Lavender Vera has proven itself to have superior winter cold hardiness and sweetly fragrant flowers suitable as cut flowers, for sachets and Lavender oil production. This heirloom variety from England is a compact plant that blooms in early summer with an abundant crop of thin, highly fragrant flower spikes with dark blue calyxes and lavender corollas.
Lavender can be sown indoors in late winter or outdoors in early spring or late fall.
Plant seeds 1/4" deep and 3" apart. Seeds should come up in 14-21 days. Thin seedlings to 18" apart.
Good For Containers and evergreen.
Each packet contains 300 Organic Lavender Vera seeds. Lavendula angustifolia. Annual. Open-pollinated, heirloom, non-GMO. Harvest in 100 days. $3.00
This packet plants a 80' row.
Features.
This English lavender popular for adding a sweet floral flavor to foods. It will bloom in the spring and again in the fall. It is a water-wise plant that attract butterflies, and bees. It is deer and rabbit resistant. The fragrant flowers and foliage are good for cut flowers and for dried flowers. ,
Benefits.
The lavender plant, a fragrant flower, is also an edible herb. You can use lavender to add flavor to baked goods and other recipes. However. the strong flavor can be overpowering, so add it sparingly. There are many health benefits of eating lavender, including upping your intake of vitamins and minerals and protecting your body from antioxidants and stress.