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Lavandula Hidcote Plants - Delivered by Mail Order from the Nursery with a 1 Year Guarantee
Hidcote Lavender, Lavandula angustifolia Hidcote, is a purple flowering English lavender plant with plump flower heads. Lavender needs lots of sun and a well drained site.
Hidcote Lavender is often used for low, decorative border hedges up to about 60 centimetres high.
You can also buy Munstead Lavender, which has slimmer, more pale purple flower heads and grows better in windy and seaside positions.
Hidcote Lavender hedge plants are only delivered pot-grown, in the spring.
All our lavender plants are bushy, 2 year old shrubs that have been propagated from cuttings and clipped so that they reach you with a dense mound of stems.
Spacing a Hidcote Lavender hedge:
Lavender is commonly planted in a row as edging along a path or the boundary of a flower bed.
Plant Hidcote Lavender hedging at 3 plants per metre, 33cms apart.
General description of Hidcote Lavender plants:
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 for rose beds or as decorative hedging along 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 unmistakable 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 eat lavender.
History & uses of Lavandula angustifolia Hidcote:
This variety was bred in the 1920's and has become one of the most popular English lavender varieties.
Browse all of our Lavender Plants for Sale here.
Growing Hidcote Lavender plants:
Hidcote Lavender needs a good dose of sun and a well drained to dry soil. Lavender plants do not really mind the cold but they hate wet ground in winter.
If necessary, drainage can be improved by creating a ridge or mound to plant into. Use lots of grit, sand and low quality soil to bulk it up.
Lavender is good to plant on the coast and is very drought resistant once it is settled in.
Lavandula Hidcote will grow well in any soil type and actually performs better in less fertile sites, though it won't hurt to mix in a little compost if the soil is really poor.
The only fertiliser we recommend adding is a little bone meal.
Prepare your site before planting:
It is good to dig over the area where you plant a hedge several months in advance, especially if the soil is poor. Destroy the weeds first: nettles, brambles and ground elder are tough and a glyphosate based weed-killer is the best way to remove them. Then dig the soil over; remove rocks, roots and other rubbish. Mix in well rotted compost or manure down to the depth of about 2 spades. If your soil is rich, you don't have to dig it over, but killing all the weeds is still necessary.
Watch our video on how to plant a garden hedge for full details.
Remember to water establishing plants during dry weather for at least a year after planting.
Hedge Planting Accessories:
Prepare your site for planting by killing the weeds and grass with Roundup weed killer.
If your soil quality is poor, we recommend using mycorrhizal "friendly fungi" on the roots of new trees and shrubs.
You can also improve your soil with bonemeal organic fertiliser.
After you have planted your Hidcote Lavender hedge, the most important thing to do is water it in dry weather until it is established - usually about 8 weeks. You will also need to weed around the plants. Watering should be thorough, so the ground is soaked. Let the soil almost dry out before watering again. Weeding will be necessary for at least a year after planting.
Trimming Lavender plants:
Lavender really benefits from a hard trim every year in late autumn. This will ensure dense growth, lots of flowers the following year and generally extend the life span of your plants beauty. Cut back each stem right down to about two buds / cms of green growth.
Avoid cutting into the older, woody part of the stems. If you are regular with your pruning, you shouldn't need to do this anyway.
If you deadhead the flowers regularly, this will encourage more of them in the same season.
Hygiene & Diseases:
Dead, damaged or diseased wood can be pruned off as soon as it appears.
Disinfect your pruning tools between every cut if there is any sign of disease.
Burn or dispose of any diseased material, do not compost it.
Regularly clean out dead leaves from underneath your plants.
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Delivery: The basic delivery charge for lavender is £9.49 + vat, which increases to £12.55 + vat if you add larger 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 lavender 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 of the plants that you buy from our nursery die within a year of delivery, we will replace them.
You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.
We do ask for clear photos of the plants in the soil, both taking in the planting area and close up. These will help us to work out what went wrong so we can give you the right advice for looking after your replacements.
The most important thing to do with establishing plants is to water them in dry weather. Water very thoroughly, but not too frequently: allow the top 2 inches of soil to dry out before you water again. In hot summer weather, this should mean that you are watering 1 to 3 times per week, depending on your site's drainage and exposure to wind and sun.
If there is heavy rain, that counts as a watering for your plants. If there is only very light rain during hot weather, this probably won't be of much use to your plants and they will still need watering.
Weeding is also very important; we strongly recommend using a mulch mat (for trees) or mulch fabric (for hedges) if weeding your new plants will be impractical.
Outside your 1 Year Guarantee period?
If your plants die or get sick after their first year, you are still welcome to take some photos and send them in: we will still be happy to give you what advice we can.
We can't make any promises, but if you want to buy replacements from us, give us a call and we'll see if we can arrange a discount for you.
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.
