Lavender (English Tall/Vera)

Botanical Interests English Tall/Vera Lavender Seeds

This is the tall, old-fashioned, wonderfully fragrant lavender that is an extremely valuable and easy-to-use household herb, an important ingredient in fragrance sachets and potpourris, an excellent cut and dried flower for arrangements, and a most useful component of innumerable craft projects. Add the flowers to simple syrup to make craft cocktails/mocktails or lavender lemonade. Bake into bread, cookies, or scones and use to flavor jellies. Perfect for rock gardens, or as a short hedge, and attracts pollinators.

Sowing Information:

• Light: Full sun
• When to Start Inside: RECOMMENDED. 10 to 12 weeks before your average last frost date. Transplant seedlings after average last frost.
• When to Sow Outside: 4 to 6 weeks before your average last frost date, as soon as soil can be worked, or late fall in any climate.
• Seed Depth: Surface to ⅛ inch
• Seed Spacing: A group of 3 seeds every 24–36 inches
• Thinning: When 1 inch tall, thin to 1 every 24–36 inches
• Days to Emerge: 21–35 days

Growing Notes:

• Variety Information: ¼–½ inch purple flowers, clustered on spikes
• Bloom Period: Summer
• Hardiness: Perennial in USDA zones 5 and warmer
• Attributes: Attracts pollinators, cut flower, deer-resistant, drought-tolerant