French and Spanish lavender are more drought tolerant than the English types. Look for plants marked Lavandula dentata or L stoechas. There are many different varieties available of each.

Almost everyone wants color in the landscape, and flowerbeds play an important role in that. But it takes a lot of work to ...

Lavender is a popular perennial known for its fragrant flowers, as well as its use within cosmetics and herbal remedies. When you see abundant fields of lavender flowers it's easy to assume they are ...

In my humble opinion, lavender is one of the most amazing plants in the world. It can be tough and soft, fragrant and versatile, healing and tasty. It has an amazingly long history; Egyptians used ...

Five plants to ‘avoid’ growing next to lavender that can ‘harm’ and ‘weaken’ this shrub There are a vast array of plants that grow well beside lavender, but there are also many that do ...

Do you have lavender plants in your garden? If so, how are they looking? It turns out that some local gardeners’ lavender isn’t doing very well after our very tough winter.

Pruning lavender can prolong the plant's lifespan by up to several years, but one mistake could see the shrubs go to waste imminently.

If that’s the case, Lavender Fields Herb Farm offers plenty of reasons to smile — they sell more than 200 kinds of plants. The business’s 20 or so employees help grow about 300,000 plants a ...

Lavender plants can live for about 20 years, but after about seven years the plant starts to look woody and produces fewer flowers. However, there are ways to bring them back to life ...

Q. I have several lavender bushes that are looking woody and ragged. I have not pruned them before. What can you tell me about pruning lavender so my shrubs will bloom and look good this summer? A ...

It’s the busiest season for Lavender Pond Farm in Killingworth. There are about 10,000 lavender plants and a gift shop that sells all different soothing products, including lavender lemonade.