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Munstead Lavender Plants - Blue Lavender
These Munstead Lavender plants are 2 years old and in 1.5 Litre pots. They were cut back in spring for summer planting and should flower in September this year.
We grow one other English Lavender, Hidcote, with bluer flowers but less good in windy and seaside positions.
An evergreen, intensely aromatic shrub, Lavandula Munstead is a classic Lavender plant, with its purple-blue flowers and light misting of grey hairs on its leaves.
The plentiful flowering stems rise up above the foliage and break into flower from early July to late September, providing one of the best sources of nectar for pollinating insects.
Munstead lavender is great for making a low hedge to border your flower beds or line a path and is best used where you can savour its heady aroma.
Lavender was an effective herbal antiseptic, used by soldiers to treat wounds, burns and disinfect bandages from the Roman era - there are records of its use from 60AD up to World War One, when standard medical supplies were often scarce.
Though not really a dwarf Lavender, Munstead tends to be a little smaller than its relatives, reaching around 60cms.
It is ideal for planting with other blue lavender plants to give a subtly varied, wild effect.
Planting and Caring for Lavandula Munstead
It should be no surprise that Munstead 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 intouse 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 angustifolia Munstead 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.
Caring for and Pruning Lavender Plants:
Deadhead your flowers.
Clipping your plants hard each late autumn, after flowering, will ensure dense growth and lots of flowers the following year.
Cut back each stem to about two buds / cms of green growth.
There is a general fear about cutting into the woody stems and if you are regular with your pruning you should not need to.
If you do have to hard prune old lavender plants, do so a bit earlier in the season, as soon as the flowers begin to fade.
MINIMUM ORDER for Lavandula Munstead is 6 plants.
Delivery is in May only if you want to buy other potted plants at the same time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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