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Best Lavender Varieties for Chickens
Order Potted Plants Now For May Delivery
The best Lavender plants for chickens are the taller English Lavenders, 60cm and up.
Dwarf varieties under 60cm are likely to get scratched to pieces! By the same token, little plants need protection until they are mature and tough enough for pecking.
Lavender essential oil is used to treat minor skin diseases on chickens and other animals, make sure it is diluted to under 5%.
- Order now, pay later: we don't charge your card until before delivery
- When your order is ready: your mail order hedge plants are delivered by next working day courier (not the next working day after ordering!)
- Friendly support: if there is anything wrong with your plants when you inspect them, Contact Us within 5 working days
- UK Grown: using peat free compost
Delivery Prices
A typical delivery charge for potted shrubs like Lavender is £8 to £15, depending on the order size, if there are no larger plants like trees in the order as well.
Delivery is calculated automatically during checkout after you enter your delivery address.
Delivery Season
Lavender should be planted into warm soil.
If you plant it too early, before nighttime temperatures rise, the roots get shocked and set back, which is especially bad for little plants.
- The smallest lavenders, in P9 pots, are never shipped before May
- The larger pot sizes are usually shipped from the end of April, but cold weather like we had this year can delay
Delivery Lead Time
- Typically 2 weeks if the plant is in stock, rather than available to order before its delivery season
- We process orders in batches to keep costs low
- We keep you notified by email
Choosing a pot size
- For window boxes and other containers, starting with the smallest, cheapest plants in P9 pots is great because it pots these little plants up while putting them to use ornamentally
If you plant P9s out directly, the best time is late-May into June when the soil is warm and there is plenty of growing time before Winter - For quick borders, hedges and edges, or single shrubs that provide instant impact, larger plants in 2 litre pots are ideal. You get more root and more flower in the first year, and they do not look lost planted as a hedge at one every 13" (33cm)
- For filling a spot in a mature flower border with a lavender muffin-mound, or for a truly instant lavender hedge, 5 Litre pots are the largest we grow. We reckon Lavender sold in pot sizes larger than 5L has a higher failure rate in its first Winter.
How many plants per metre?
Spacing a Lavender hedge: Like most evergreen hedging, the default spacing is 3 per metre, 33cm apart in a single row.