These elegant evergreen bushes and shrubs with aromatic leaves and flowers bloom all summer. They can be used for single or group plantings along the tracks or on the edges of lawns. They need well-drained, calcareous soil is better. Lavender blooms better on poor rocky soil in full sun. Below are cold-resistant and heat-loving plants. Recent need to plant in warm, sheltered places, especially in areas with cold winters. They can be grown in pots outdoors in the summer and put the winter in frost-free greenhouse. The flowers are often dried and used to prepare sachets and mixtures of herbs. Lavender quickly pulled in length, and it must be cut severely, but in 6-8 years to replace the plants with new ones. Therefore, the maximum height of the recommended species and varieties not listed here. Homeland lavender -Sredizemnomore and Y. Europe.
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Recommended species and varieties
L. angustifolia (syn. L. officinalis, L. spica) (L. angustifolia, L. officinalis. L. pigweed)
Pastel blue-gray fragrant flowers are collected in spike inflorescence length of 6 cm. Flowering from late spring to late summer. Linear leaves elongated to 4 cm long, grayish in late summer green. The plant is hardy, cold-resistant. The leaves are gray-green.
«Bowles' Early» (syn. «Bowles Grey», «Bowles Variety»)
Pale purple flowers, foliage green, and later becomes grayish.
«Hidcote» (syn. L. «Hidcote Blue»)
The variety, which creates a vivid contrast towering over the silvery foliage inflorescence of deep purple. Their length of 5 cm, flowering period from early to mid summer. Height is 45 cm.
«Hidcote Pink»
Pale lilac and pink flowers and silver foliage.
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«Imperial Gem»
The flowers are dark purple. Height - 45 cm.
«Loddon Blue»
The variety blooms in mid-summer, blue-purple flowers. The leaves are gray-green. Height - 45 cm.
«Loddon Pink» (syn. L. «Loddon Pink»)
Compact bushes of the same size with narrow gray-green leaves and blooming in midsummer pale pink flowers.
«Munstead»
Open inflorescence lilac-blue flowers and uzkoprodolgovatye grayish-green leaves; flowering in late summer.
«Nana Alba»
Dense white flowers stalks length of 2.5 cm and a gray-green foliage. Bloom in mid-summer. Height - 23 cm approximately.
«Princess Blue»
Flowers pale lavender-blue, 5 cm in length; blooming in early summer. The height and diameter of the plant - 45h50 cm.
«Rosea» (syn. L. Jean Davis, L. Jtosea)
At high (75 cm) peduncles early summer appear pastel pink flowers.
«Royal Purple»
Variety with long racemes of purple flowers in large greenish-gray leaves.
«Twickel Purple»
Narrow inflorescence up to 10 cm, purple flowers, greenish-gray leaves. Bloom in mid-summer. Bushes rounded, height 60 cm, width 45 cm. Grades lavender generally less hardy than the original form.
L. «Cornard Blue»
Dense spike inflorescence length of 6 cm on the stems to 1 m in length, flowers pale cyan and magenta, with noticeable purple bracts, flowering in late summer. The leaves are toothed, dark green. Poluvynoslivoe plant. The height and diameter of the plant - 45x45 cm.
Var. candicans
Flowers and bracts silver forms a pale purple, leaves a length of 4 cm covered with white hairs. Height - 60 cm.
Intermedia Dutch Group (L. average, the Dutch variety)
Pale blue flowers in the inflorescence length of 6 cm to 75 cm peduncles length. Flowering from mid-summer to early fall. The leaves are gray-green, linear-oblong. These dense shrubs are quite hardy. Vycota and diameter of plants - 75x75 cm (5 years).
«Grappenhall»
Variety with fragrant small light purple flowers on strong peduncles length of 1.2 m; flowering in late summer. The leaves are gray-green, uzkoprodolgovatye. The height and diameter of plants -50h80 cm.
«Seal»
Pastel light purple sharpened spike inflorescence length of 8 cm bloom in summer and early autumn. It reaches a size of about 1 m.
Lanata (L. woolly)
Fragrant bright purple inflorescence length of 7.5 cm to 60 cm peduncles rise from mid-summer to early fall on whitish pubescent linear leaves a length of 5 cm. The plant is not enough winter-hardy. The height and diameter of plants -75h75 cm.
Officinalis
At this lavender purple flowers, inflorescence to 9 cm, peduncles up to 30 cm. The mild climate it blooms from late spring until the first frost. The leaves are cut into many small stakes, covered with short gray hairs. This heat-loving plant dies after the first frost, but the time to form seeds. Thus, the seeds can be harvested and grown this kind of as an annual. The height and diameter of the plant - 60x60 cm.
«Rosea»
Pale purple flowers stand out against the pale velvety gray-green leaves. It blooms all summer. The plant is relatively hardy. The height and diameter of the plants - 60x60 cm (5 years).
E. spka
Dark purple fragrant flowers in dense inflorescence length of 4 cm. It blooms from late spring to early summer, may re-bloom in early autumn. Pink-purple bracts grow bundles and stored after wilting flowers. Leaves linear up to 3 cm in length, silver-gray. To experience winter conditions it is relatively winter-hardy plants need good drainage. The height and diameter of plants -45h45 cm (5 years).
F. leucantha (syn. var. albiflora)
Flowers and bracts are white.
Ssp. pedunculate (syn. «Papillon»)
Dark purple flowers, and a bright magenta bracts climb peduncles up to 15 cm.
«James Compton»
In the variety chetyrehsantimegrovye inflorescence deep purple bracts and graceful; leaves with aroma, grayish, dissected.
L. viridis (L. green)
Blooms small white flowers from late spring to mid-autumn. Flowers surrounded by bracts that give the plant a yellowish-green color. Dark green leaves emit a scent of lemon. The plant is fairly heat-loving. The height and diameter of the plant - 60x60 cm.
cultivation
Luxury grow varieties of lavender can afford only in warm climates. In the middle zone of Russia's success depends on well-fit.
Winter cover does not help, but rather may cause damping-off of lavender. Seedlings planted in the spring in any well-drained soil in a sunny spot.
After flowering desirable to remove peduncles.
reproduction
For tailored to your plant conditions sow the seeds in April and May in open ground. Favorite plants reproduce by cuttings taken in spring green, rooting under glass. Semilignified can take cuttings in late summer. It can be at the beginning of the summer to cut lignified shards and put them in the garden to a permanent place. The annual culture L. pinnata seeds of seedlings in a warm room from the beginning of March. Tempered and seedlings planted in flower beds after the threat of frost blowjob.
pruning
Light pruning in the fall. Sloppy plants should be pruned in the spring to encourage bushy growth from the base. Hedges of lavender crop in mid-spring to give them form.
Pests and diseases
May be affected spittlebugs and leaf blotch
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