DescriptionDelivery & Guarantee
Hidcote Lavender - Lavandula angustifolia Hidcote
These are established 2 year old plants in 1.5 Litre pots.
They are not small plugs or cuttings with weak roots.
Hidcote is SOLD OUT for 2011. We still have Munstead Lavender in stock, which is very similar.
Planting Hidcote Lavender:
Dry, windy, rocky places are all good for Lavender.
It loves the sun and hates damp shade.
In most normal gardens it will grow well.
For best results in damper gardens it never hurt to import some very gritty soil and fork it into a mound 6 inches high for your lavender - keeping their bases dry like this will help.
Caring for your plants:
Within 2 years, these little plants will send down a strong root system, but until then they need watering in summer.
Soak the soil every 2 days if there is no rain and your soil is dry.
Pruning Hidcote Lavender:
Couldn't be easier: plant it in Spring, deadhead the flowers and then give it a good haircut in late Autumn, leaving about 2 cm of green shoot on each stem.
Do the same again the next year.
This will form a plant with a nice bushy base in later years.
Hidcote Lavender has dark blue and purple flowers above silvery evergreen leaves from early summer into August.
Its flowers and leaves fill any garden with scent and it is an ideal edging plant which makes a superb low hedge to 2ft - 60cms tall.
Lavender plants are particularly effective as hedging around rosebeds or as edging for stone terraces or paths where they break up the lines of the hard landscaping.
The flowers of all lavenders attract pollinating insects and give honey an unmistakeable flavour.
Lavender flowers can also be cut and dried when they can be made into lavender bags or just hung in a bunch in airing cupboards and wardrobes where as well as smelling sweet they repel clothes moths.
Rabbits don't seem to like eating lavender.
Spacing Hidcote lavender: All lavenders likes a sunny position and well drained soil.
It should be planted at 3 per metre and likes to be clipped hard after flowering and more gently again in late March.
Minimum order is 6 lavender plants, unless you are ordering other potted plants at the same time -
Lavender Delivery is in May Only.Browse all of our
Lavender Plants for Sale here.
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Delivery: The basic delivery charge for orders of bareroot plants is £9.49 + vat, which increases to £12.55 + vat if you add any pot-grown plants, standard trees or fruit trees to the order.
Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
You can choose the delivery week that suits you during checkout and we will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.
Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.
Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.
Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week if there is no heavy rain.
Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.
Your 12 Month Guarantee
If any plants die within a year, we replace them if you have followed our instructions. You only pay for
the delivery of the replacements.
Place an order for £250 excluding VAT and delivery and we deliver it for FREE!
Bare-root Plants are only delivered in the winter season, from November to March. Pot grown plants can be delivered all year round
Advantages of Bare-root plants:
You pay less for the same size plants.
You can carry and plan them easily.
You only plant them in winter, so they need less maintenance after
planting. The rain will water them for their first few months.
You get the biggest selection: Many trees are not sold pot-grown.
They are "asleep" in winter - this is the best time to transplant any tree.
They use fewer fertilisers & fungicides, less water and fuel in their production & delivery.
Advantages of Pot Grown plants:
Pot grown plants can be delivered & planted all year round.
Plants with tender roots & larger specimens must be delivered in pots.
Plants in pots can be kept for months longer if there is a delay in planting.
Our Advice to You:
If you can't wait to get planting, order Pot grown plants now.
If you are not in a hurry, order bare-root plants for delivery this winter. Simply add them to your basket and choose a winter delivery date that suits you during checkout.
This will reserve your plants before they sell out.
We won't charge you until the day before delivery, so cancelling your order is always easy.
If you are only ordering chemicals and other small items, delivery is £3.50
Our delivery charge for most bareroot plants is £9.49 + VAT.
If your order contains any standard sized trees, fruit trees or pot-grown plants, then the delivery charge is £12.55 + VAT in TOTAL.
If you live in the Scottish Highlands or the Isle of Wight, there will be an extra charge of £15 + VAT on top of the appropriate basic charge, as listed above.
If your order is over £250 exc. VAT, there will be no delivery charge.
If you are uncertain, just add items to your basket which will calculate the basic shipping charge for you.
