You Garden 12x Lavender Hidcote Plug Plants

Nothing beats the sight and smell of an English Lavender hedge in full flower in Summer. Seen in some of the swankiest gardens across the country lavender Hidcote is the classic hardy English Lavender and will transform your garden with colour and incredible fragrance! The silvery grey foliage and pure purple blooms are packed with a heady scent and will provide you with a colourful spectacle from early to mid-summer.

Hidcote is one of the most aromatic varieties, grown widely in the fragrance market, yet is a great garden variety too. The purple flowers are also a magnet to bees, butterflies, and other beneficial creatures, which will have your garden buzzing with wildlife. Growing up to 60 cm tall, a hedge of traditional English lavender can be used in many ways. Try planting it around beds, borders, or paths, to divide up parts of your garden or to make an eye-catching parterre or knot garden.

• Supplied as a set of 12 plug plants, ready to be potted up & grown on before planting out
• This drought-tolerant plant thrives in sunny border, container, herb or gravel gardens
• Best planted between April & May when the soil is warming up, lavender thrives in most free-draining soils in full sun
• 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
• Space plants 90 cm (3 ft) apart, or if growing a hedge, 30 cm (1 ft) apart or, 45 cm (18 in) for larger cultivars
• Lavender can be grown in large pots, 30-40 cm (1 ft-16 in) in diameter, using a multipurpose or loam-based compost with some extra coarse grit to improve drainage
• Growing up to 60 cm tall