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2 LitreArctic Snow-2LLavandula angustifolia Arctic Snow24P9 (9cm Pot)Arctic Snow-P9Lavandula angustifolia Arctic Snow961 LitreBeezee Dark Blue-1LLavandula angustifolia 'Beezee Dark Blue'182P9 (9cm Pot)Beezee Dark Blue-P9Lavandula angustifolia 'Beezee Dark Blue'190P9 (9cm Pot)Edelweiss-P9Lavandula x intermedia Edelweiss62 LitreFrench Butterfly-2LLavandula stoechas / pedunculata Papillon4P9 (9cm Pot)French Butterfly-P9Lavandula stoechas / pedunculata Papillon1142 LitreGrosso-2LLavandula intermedia Grosso141P9 (9cm Pot)Grosso-P9Lavandula intermedia Grosso70P9 (9cm Pot)Havana-P9Lavandula angustifolia Havana37100 x P9 PotsHidcote-100 x P9Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote'32 LitreHidcote-2LLavendula angustifolia Hidcote65730 x P9 PotsHidcote-30 x p9Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote'15 Litre PotHidcote-5LLavendula angustifolia Hidcote62P9 (9cm Pot)Hidcote-P9Lavendula angustifolia Hidcote418P9 (9cm Pot)Lusi Purple-P9Lavandula pedunculata Lusi Purple188100 x P9 PotsMunstead-100 x P9Lavandula angustifolia 'Munstead'12 LitreMunstead-2LLavandula angustifolia Munstead20630 x P9 PotsMunstead-30 x p9Lavandula angustifolia 'Munstead'2P9 (9cm Pot)Munstead-P9Lavandula angustifolia Munstead473P9 (9cm Pot)Phenomenal-P9Lavendula intermedia Phenomenal22 LitreProvenC'al-2LLavandula stoechas ProvenC'al45P9 (9cm Pot)Regal Splendour-p9Lavandula stoechas Regal Splendour56P9 (9cm Pot)Rosea-P9Lavender angustifolia Rosea872 LitreSnowman-2LLavandula stoechas Snowman27P9 (9cm Pot)Snowman-P9Lavandula stoechas Snowman672 LitreVera-2LLavandula intermedia Vera39P9 (9cm Pot)Vera-P9Lavandula intermedia Vera822 LitreVictory-2LLavandula stoechas Victorie24

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  • 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.
 

Choosing A Variety

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Growing Lavender

Read our full guide on how to grow lavender, with a quick Autumn pruning video.

Lavender FAQs

All Lavender is great for bees, butterflies, and other pollinating bugs; a mix of varieties is even better.
All Lavender is great for growing in pots: French Lavender is especially popular.

Best Hardy Lavender Varieties for Cold Climates in the North & Scotland?

  • All English & Dutch lavenders are RHS Hardiness Rated H5 (-15C to -10C), fine for cold regions
  • HidcoteMunstead, and Vera are time-tested favourites
  • Phenomenal is a fairly new variety with good reviews from cold climate gardeners

Only French Butterfly Lavender varieties don't perform so well outdoors in the UK's colder areas, where they are usually grown in pots, but a sheltered, sunny, South facing location near a house is probably fine.

Lavender is generally hardy and able to survive the British winter with only a bit of leaf damage, but French Butterfly Lavender might perform better in a pot that you bring into shelter during winter.

Planting Lavender

  • Lavender prefers a sunny, dry, windy site, and cannot tolerate damp soil in Winter.
  • Plant outdoors in warm, well worked soil from late April at the earliest, through to early August.
  • Plant in pots at any time, using a sandy, well-draining potting mix.

To keep the base of the plants above heavy clay ground, try creating mounds or ridges to help drainage and air flow, using added organic matter and large particle sand (not smooth sand) or pea grit mixed into the clay.

Lavender Care

  • Pruning each autumn is essential to keep them bushy and floriferous. Prune hard, but avoid cutting into old woody growth beyond a visible leaf bud: even a tiny one is fine.
  • Regular dead-heading throughout the season will promote repeat flowering.
  • Trimming in spring is not essential, but keeps plants tight and bushy and flowering at their peak. 

Lavender's aesthetic appeal naturally declines after about a decade in most locations, even with diligent care, so it pays to take cuttings from older plants as their replacements! 

Lavender In The Garden

A naturally small, bushy shrub, lavender is one of the most valuable ornamental hedging and edging plants. 

Hardy English, French and Dutch Lavenders are staples of sunny gardens and patios with their profuse flowers, attractive evergreen foliage, and fantastic scent.

A go-to choice to soften straight lines, blurring the lines of terraces, steps, or paths. A shrub rose border walled off with lavender makes a classic combo.

One of the few really useful kitchen garden herbs that, like fennel, truly belongs in the ornamental border as well.