English Lavender 'Hidcote', Lavender 'Hidcote', Lavandula 'Hidcote', Lavandula Spica 'Hidcote Purple', Lavandula 'Hidcote Blue'
Highly popular, English Lavender ‘Hidcote’ is a free flowering variety that is prized by most gardeners for its long-lasting and delightful scent as well as the fashion in which its dark purple flower spikes beautifully contrast with its blue-green evergreen foliage. Hidcote is a perfect choice for low hedges, edging, or creating borders. Excellent for crafts and dried flowers as they retain their color.
English Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), also called True Lavender or Common Lavender is a type of lavender often associated with the famous purple lavender fields of Provence. Despite its common name, it is not native to England, but to the Mediterranean and counts over 40 different cultivars with flower spikes varying from blue-purple, lavender, violet-blue to white-pink. They create drifts of “cool” colors that sway elegantly in the summer breeze atop a beautifully contrasting gray-green to green-purple foliage of narrow leaves. Growing up to 2-3 ft. tall (60-90 cm), this Lavender type is great for formal or informal edging perennial along walkways, raised walls, and borders; also planted in beds, rock gardens, and in mass plantings. This is also the “queen of herbs” for herb gardens.
Hardiness |
5 - 9 |
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Heat Zones |
5 - 8 |
Climate Zones | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 |
Plant Type | Herbs, Shrubs |
Plant Family | Lamiaceae |
Genus | Lavandula |
Common names | English Lavender, Lavender |
Exposure | Full Sun |
Season of Interest |
Spring (Late) Summer (Early, Mid) |
Height |
1' - 2' (30cm - 60cm) |
Spread |
1' - 2' (30cm - 60cm) |
Spacing |
18" - 24" (50cm - 60cm) |
Maintenance | Average |
Water Needs | Low |
Soil Type | Chalk, Loam, Sand |
Soil pH | Acid, Alkaline, Neutral |
Soil Drainage | Well-Drained |
Characteristics | Dried Arrangements, Cut Flowers, Fragrant, Plant of Merit, Showy, Evergreen |
Tolerance | Drought, Deer, Rabbit, Dry Soil, Rocky Soil |
Attracts | Bees, Butterflies |
Garden Uses | Banks And Slopes, Beds And Borders, Edging, Hedges And Screens, Patio And Containers |
Garden Styles | City and Courtyard, Coastal Garden, Informal and Cottage, Mediterranean Garden, Gravel and Rock Garden |
Hardiness |
5 - 9 |
---|---|
Heat Zones |
5 - 8 |
Climate Zones | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 |
Plant Type | Herbs, Shrubs |
Plant Family | Lamiaceae |
Genus | Lavandula |
Common names | English Lavender, Lavender |
Exposure | Full Sun |
Season of Interest |
Spring (Late) Summer (Early, Mid) |
Height |
1' - 2' (30cm - 60cm) |
Spread |
1' - 2' (30cm - 60cm) |
Spacing |
18" - 24" (50cm - 60cm) |
Maintenance | Average |
Water Needs | Low |
Soil Type | Chalk, Loam, Sand |
Soil pH | Acid, Alkaline, Neutral |
Soil Drainage | Well-Drained |
Characteristics | Dried Arrangements, Cut Flowers, Fragrant, Plant of Merit, Showy, Evergreen |
Tolerance | Drought, Deer, Rabbit, Dry Soil, Rocky Soil |
Attracts | Bees, Butterflies |
Garden Uses | Banks And Slopes, Beds And Borders, Edging, Hedges And Screens, Patio And Containers |
Garden Styles | City and Courtyard, Coastal Garden, Informal and Cottage, Mediterranean Garden, Gravel and Rock Garden |
How many Lavandula angustifolia ‘Hidcote’ (Lavender) do I need for my garden?
Plant | Quantity | |
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Lavandula angustifolia ‘Hidcote’ (Lavender) | N/A | Buy Plants |
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