A compact and bushy beauty which reaches a height and spread of 30-35cm and flowers throughout summer into autumn. Lavandula angustifolia ‘Blue Scent’ is evergreen shrub with linear, aromatic, grey-green leaves, and slender, upright stems bearing dense, terminal spikes of fragrant, lavender-blue flowers. Ideal for drying and a beautiful, fragrant inclusion in floral displays for inside your home. Current trends also see seeds used for baking into cakes or puddings and adding to savoury dishes. Though commonly called English Lavender, this is actually a Mediterranean shrub, growing wild on baked hillsides. The common name is drawn from its ability to tolerate the UK’s colder climate. Pollinating insects, particularly bees, will be drawn to the flowers of this eponymous cottage garden favourite. Plants are suitable for growing in containers and rockeries as well as being used for low hedging to the front of a border or pathway. Plant in well-drained soil of any type except clay. Ens
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