What Is English Lavender?

English lavender is an evergreen drought tolerant shrub. The English lavender shrub needs full sun which means that includes all day and full west sun. It is rarely browsed by deer. It attract bees with nectar and or pollen. It grows one to two feet tall and two to three feet wide. English lavender grows in zones 5 - 10, but it resents humid heat.

English lavender has several special attributes, which are, this is an aromatic herb that has dense gray or green foliage and it has upright spikes of small flowers that are attractive to bees. The English lavender has strongly fragrant blossoms and leaves. There are compact varieties and selections that has pink or white flowers that are available.

English lavender has several design ideas, which are it can be place along paths for fragrance. It can be use as an edging for herb gardens, or it can be shear as a formal feature, or a row crop in large gardens. It can be combine with different types of plants, such as butterfly weed, evening primrose and striped iris, along with midsize grasses such as silver spike grass, atlas fescue, or feather grass.

There are several different low water shrubs that are related to English lavender, which are Lavandin carries more slender flower spikes and it is less hardy to zone six. 'Grosso White' has white flowers. French lavender, Spanish lavender, and 'Goodwin Creek Grey' are hardy in the zones 8 - 10. Fern leaf lavender is frost tender and it is ever blooming.

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