What is lavender Avonview?

What is lavender Avonview?

Lavender Avonview is a long-blooming shrub with aromatic flowers and foliage. It features vibrant, dark blue flower heads with contrasting violet-purple bracts. Flowers are produced throughout the warmer months and all year round in hotter climates.

Is Avonview lavender English?

Italian Lavender is a popular evergreen shrub grown for its scented, grey foliage and aromatic deep purple flower spikes. During spring it produces large, dense spikes of perfumed, blue\purple flowers.

How tall does lavender Stoechas grow?

about 50-80cm
Lavandula stoechas ‘Blueberry Ruffles’ is a compact growing shrub which reaches about 50-80cm in height. The flowers have colourful tufts of bracts at the top which are violet with deep purple centres. These are excellent for planting in containers.

What is the hardest lavender?

English lavenders
English lavenders, always listed under L. angustifolia, are the hardiest of all – and the longest lived. A correctly pruned lavender of this type will look lovely and vigorous twenty years on, but will then need replacing.

How do you care for Avonview Lavender?

This is a low care plant once established.

1. Ensure a well drained humus rich soil.
2. Plant in full sun to a little shade.
3. Water in with a liquid seaweed fertiliser.
4. Tip prune from a young age.
5. Mulch around the plant to maintain a cool root run and suppress weeds.

What is dwarf Lavender?

Dwarf Lavender is a compact yet impressively fragrant, low-growing lavender, perfect for garden borders, pathways or rockeries. Dwarf Lavender is low-growing and best suited to a height of less than 50cm. Dwarf Lavender plants have an average growth rate and can be expected to achieve 20-40cm per year.

How do you care for Avonview lavender?

Which lavender smells the best?

The most fragrant Lavender plants are the Lavandin (Lavandula x intermedia). Several cultivars of English Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) are also prized for their delightful scent. Lavandula x intermedia, also called Lavandin, is a hybrid cross between Lavandula angustifolia and Lavandula latifolia.

How do you look after lavender Stoechas?

For best results, grow Lavandula stoechas in well-drained soil in full sun. Cut back the flower stalks after they have finished, and then trim back plants in April, if necessary.

How do you care for a lavender Stoecha?

Spanish Lavender, Stoechas Lavender (Lavandula stoechas)

1. Plant Feed. Slow release feed in spring.
2. Watering. Allow soil to dry between thorough waterings.
3. Soil. Light, well-drained soil.
4. Basic Care Summary. Does best in light, well-drained soil. Allow soil to dry between thorough waterings.

Does lavender need to be covered in winter?

If you live where subfreezing winter temperatures are common, it’s helpful to cover your lavender plants with evergreen boughs once you’ve had your first frost and the ground is cold. The covering also provides protection from cold winter winds that can dry out the plants and cause die-back of stems.

Which is better Avonview lavender or L stoecha lavender?

Avonview is an improved selection from the Italian family of lavenders and does not have the weediness issues other L stoechas has. Lavender prefers a full sun to part shade position and are excellent for the hot and dry areas of most gardens.

What kind of flowers are in Lavender Avonview?

Lavender Avonview (Lavandula stoechas ‘Avonview’) has bright purple butterfly topped flowers with beautiful aroma from spring to autumn. Avonview is an improved selection from the Italian family of lavenders and does not have the weediness issues other L stoechas has.

What kind of flowers do Lavandula stoechas have?

Lavender Avonview. A very popular form of Lavandula stoechas, Avonview Lavender has fragrant flowers and foliage, and a good compact growth habit. Flowering from spring right through until autumn, the flowers are typical ‘butterfly’ eyes, and a good purple colour.

What kind of sun does lavender Avonview need?

Create a sensory delight in your garden with lovely, Lavender Avonview. This majestic plant features, aromatic, silvery green foliage and bright purple, butterfly blooms above dark blue flowers. An Italian variety, this plant prefers full sun to part shade and is excellent in hot, dry areas.