Sweet Romance English Lavender Plant - 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Perennial Herb

Flower Color:  Blue-Purple

Flower Size: Large clusters for a Lavender

Flowering Period:  Summer 

Flower Type:  Single, packed on spikes

Fragrant Flowers:  Yes

Foliage Color:  Grey Green

Fragrant Foliage:  Yes!

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Butterflies, Beneficial Pollinators, Visual Attention, Sensory Appeal

Resistances:  Deer, Drought (when established), Dry Soil, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

A prolific bloomer that once established thrives in hot, dry and low-nutrient soil, 'Sweet Romance' Lavender forms a mound of silvery blue-green foliage topped with abundant large clusters of brilliant purple-blue flowers from early summer into fall. The flowers are a magnet to butterflies and other beneficial pollinators and are excellent for cutting and use in flower arrangements and sachets. Also a fine culinary herb with a savory and sweet flavor. The fragrant foliage and oils from lavender are a staple in aromatherapy for their stress-relieving properties. Excellent for pots, landscape borders and garden beds, just give this one plenty of sun and very well-drained soil and watch it grow.

Growing 18 inches tall and wide, Sweet Romance Lavender is ideal for use as an accent, in groupings or mass plantings, or as a low hedge in landscape and perennial borders and herb gardens. Mass plantings are truly breathtaking. It has also done well for us in container gardens. A fine selection for herb gardens, perennial gardens, purple or blue theme gardens, cottage gardens, and rock and fragrance gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  15 inches apart for mass plantings or solid borders; 3 feet apart for space between plants

Lavender is easy to grow in a moist to somewhat dry well-drained soil of average to low fertility and plenty of sun. Constantly soggy soil or standing water is problematic. If desired, the plant can be cut back by one-third its height after flowering to maintain a fuller plant. For example, if your plant is 18 inches tall you can cut it back to 12 inches tall. 

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