Product Description
Seen in some of the swankiest gardens across the country, lavender 'Hidcote' is the classic, hardy English Lavender, and will transform your garden with colour and incredible fragrance!
The silvery grey foliage and pure purple blooms are packed with a heady scent and will provide you a colourful spectacle from early to mid-summer. 'Hidcote' is one of the most aromatic varieties, grown widely in the fragrance market, yet is a great garden variety too. The purple flowers are also a magnet to bees, butterflies, and other beneficial creatures, which will have your garden buzzing with wildlife - literally!
Growing up to 60cm tall, a hedge of traditional English lavender can be used in many ways. Try planting it around beds, borders, or paths, to divide up parts of your garden or to make an eye-catching parterre or knot garden space plants 30cm apart. Once established, a lavender hedge is extremely drought tolerant. Keep it in great shape by pruning twice a year; trim lightly in mid to late summer, removing spent flower heads. Prune again in early spring, removing about 2.5cm of growth. You can even cut the stems to make fragrant indoor dried displays!
Supplied as an established plants in a 9cm pot, ready to plant.
What Is Supplied
Item 510319 supplied as:
Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready to plant.
Item 200509 supplied as:
6 x Plug Plants
Item 510839 supplied as:
Supplied as 10 established plants in 9m pots, ready to plant.
Plant Information
Top Tips
In late summer, clip the plants back lightly after the flowers have faded. Cut the stems back by a few inches, but not so far that the stems are bare of live foliage, and plants will then have time to produce new shoots before winter dormancy.
Care Guide
- This drought-tolerant plant thrives in a sunny border, container, herb or gravel gardens.
- Lavender can be planted at any time of the year, as long as soil conditions are not frozen or waterlogged, but for best results plant between April and May when the soil is starting to warm up.
- Lavender thrives in most free-draining soils in full sun. Heavier soils should have some grit added to improve drainage and to open them up.
- Space plants 90cm apart, or if growing a hedge, 30cm apart or, 45cm for larger cultivars.
- Lavender can be grown in large pots, 30-40cm diameter, using a multipurpose or loam-based compost such as JI No 3, with some extra coarse grit, roughly a third, to improve drainage, along with some controlled release fertiliser granules.
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Fully Grown Plant dimensions (approx)
60cm
75cm
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Easy to order, on this first occasion, although I was a little confused as to weather I was ordering from Garden Bargains or, You Garden.
Streamlining the information would be helpful, as the presentations and marketing information seem to use them interchangeable.
Other than the above the website is user friendly Communication was good, from placing the order to delivery of the products, which arrived within the expected timeframe, as notified. Plants were healthy and well packaged
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This plant was smaller than I expected, but it was healthy looking and had a good shape with a lovely smell of lavender, which was surprising, given it's size.
Overall value was good
Review Submitted: 16/10/2023 - 20:30:37
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Strong, healthy-looking plants, well packed and delivered in a short time after ordering.
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smaller than expected and a little tired.
Review Submitted: 17/02/2023 - 16:03:35
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Review Submitted: 08/02/2023 - 12:00:11
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Yes I would buy from garden bargains again,it all depends on seeds and plug plants
I need next year, also cost comes into it.
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Not much today ,as they are only young.but the smell, says it all.
Review Submitted: 23/05/2022 - 21:37:29
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A good price and lovely plants . Arrived in good condition . Very pleased with my purchase thank you .
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Great little plants well packaged . Thank you . Good price .
Review Submitted: 07/02/2020 - 19:42:33