Lavender ‘Hidcote’ Plug Plants X 12

Lavandula Hidcote is a highly fragrant variety which is perfect for encouraging bees and butterflies to your garden this Summer. It will produce an abundance of violet blooms offset perfectly by the silvery-grey foliage. A great choice for beauty and delicious perfume.

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.
• Best planted between April and May when the soil is warming 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 (3ft) apart, or if growing a hedge, 30cm (1ft) apart or, 45cm (18in) for larger cultivars.
• Lavender can be grown in large pots, 30-40cm (1ft-16in) diameter, using a multipurpose or loam-based compost such as JI No 3, with some extra coarse grit, (up to 30%), to improve drainage, along with some controlled release fertiliser granules.
• Ensure that the compost is regularly watered in summer, although for improved cold tolerance, kept on the dry side during winter by standing in a cold greenhouse or in the rain shadow of walls.