YouGarden Lavender 'Hidcote' Hedging Plant, English Lavender 'Hidcote' Hedging 12 x 9cm pots

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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 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 - literally! Growing up to 60cm 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 space plants 30cm apart. Once established, a lavender hedge is extremely drought tolerant. Keep it in great shape by pruning twice a year; trim lightly in mid to late summer, removing spent flower heads. Prune again in early spring, removing about 2.5cm of growth. You can even cut the stems to make fragrant indoor dried displays! Supplied as 12 x established plants in 9cm pots ready for planting.

• Plant position - Sunny areas
• Any type of soil - Moist, fertile & well drained
• Planting period - March to November Flowering period - June to October
• Lavender can be planted at any time of the year, as long as soil conditions are not frozen or waterlogged, but for best results plant between April and May when the soil is starting to warm up.
• Lavender can be grown in large pots, 30-40cm diameter, using a multipurpose or loam-based compost, with some extra coarse grit, roughly a third, to improve drainage, along with some controlled release fertiliser granules
• Soil pH - Any
• H4 - Hardy through most of the UK (-10 to -5°C)

Features and benefits

• LAVENDER HEDGING PLANT Nothing beats the sight and smell of an English Lavender hedge in full flower in summer
• POLLINATOR FAVOURITE A mecca for bees, which do vital pollination work in gardens for bigger fruit and vegetable crops
• CLASSIC GARDEN HEDGING Traditional and well-loved hedging plants, grown for many years for decoration and long season interest, 'Hidcote' is one of the best varieties
• THICK HEDGE DISPLAYS Plant many together to form an impressive hedge, spacing each roughly 25cm apart - they'll fill the gaps within two seasons, leaving you with a full and impressive garden look
• DETAILS Supplied as 12 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant.