Lavender Munstead

Lavender ‘Munstead’ will transform your garden with colour and incredible fragrance! These traditional cottage garden favourites are proven winners in UK gardens & ideal as a fragrant hedge or border make sure you plant them somewhere you?ll be able to catch the magnificent scent!

They will attract bees and other pollinators perfect for fruit tree growers!

Very hardy, incredibly easy to grow, and drought tolerant keep them in great shape by pruning twice a year in spring and late summer.

You can even cut the stems to make fragrant indoor dried displays!

Supplied as 12 plug plants ready for potting up and growing on, these lavender plants will stay compact, reaching 45-60cm (1-2ft) tall.

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.