3 Big Time Blue Lavender Plants
3 Big Time Blue Lavender Plants
Wonderfully aromatic flowers and leaves on a very compact plant.
Big Time Blue Lavender
Early-blooming variety has silver-gray foliage and mid-blue flowers.
Scientific Name: Lavandula angustifolia - English Lavender
English lavender typically blooms earlier than Lavandula x Intermedia varieties of lavender, and it's more winter hardy (even U.P. Michigan winter hardy when uncovered).
Common Name: Lavender
Hardiness Zone: 5a - 9b
Hardiness Degree: -20°F (-28.9°C)
Blooming Season:
- Spring
- Late Spring
- Early Summer
- Midsummer
- Late Summer
Resistant:
- Deer resistant
- Rabbit resistant
Plant Habit: Mounded
Characteristics: Attracts Bees, Attracts Butterflies, Deer Resistant, Scented Foliage
Water: Light
* As with all lavender, first-year plants may need more water as they get established. It's best to let the plants dry between waterings.
Fertilize: Once a month
Spacing: 26 - 28" (66 - 71cm)
Height: 22 - 24" (56 - 61cm)
Width: 24 - 26" (61 - 66cm)
Exposure: Sun
Patented - flowering license only
Use for lavender:
- Good for pollinators.
- Gorgeous to have growing in your garden.
- Relaxing, can help ease anxiety (I can attest!).
- Cut the flowers to use as fresh bouquets.
- Give cut flower bouquets to friends and loved ones.
- Cut foliage for winter floral designs.
- Dried flowers can be debudded to make sachets.
- Dry flower cuttings and use buds in culinary dishes.
- Put in a home decor vase and use as an indoor plant.
- Put in a home decor vase and give as a gift for Mother's Day.
Your plants are off to a good start! Our lavenders are grown outside where it is survival of the fittest - not in a greenhouse. When you decide to add a lavender plant from Pause Lavender Farm to your garden, have confidence that the plant has already adapted to outdoor weather and temperatures. Plant it in your garden and watch it bloom!