Misc	Culinary, Shrub, Wildlife Value
Shade	Full Sun
Area	Coastal Areas, Exposed Windy Areas
Soil	Well Drained, Alkaline/Chalky, Poor/Dry
Colour	Lilac
Type	Evergreen, Hedging, Pot Grown
Also Good	Fragrant, Repeat Flowering
Flowering	Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep

Lavandula angustifolia Munstead

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Lavandula Angustifolia Munstead Hedging

Munstead lavender-plants has a well-earned reputation as tough, reliable, heavily scented and floriferous. It is one of the most popular members of our range of English lavender-plants plants - being probably the second best selling lavender-plants in the UK after Hidcote. It is the epitome of a lavender-plants with a well-proportioned spike of lilac-blue flowers that are a softer more powdery colour than the deeper purple of Hidcote Lavender and that distinctive scent that is now part of our olfactory culture. The leaves are aromatic too, slightly longer than Hidcote, and the same variable greyish green that can appear silvery in some lights. Pruned correctly, Munstead forms lots of shoots so that unlike most plants capable of surviving the hottest Mediterranean summers, it looks soft and fresh and verdant. This trait proves useful when planted close together because the leaves soon interweave to form a hedge with the flowers upright and coloured above like a layer of purple gauze over a silver petticoat.

See our selection of evergreen hedging or see our full range of hedging plants.

PLEASE NOTE: Delivery of lavender-plants is weather dependent. In a warm spring we start shipping as early as April but if the weather is cold it can slip into May. There is nothing to be gained from trying to plant it out before nighttime temperatures rise consistently. The shock simply sets it back and it will establish more slowly and flower less well than lavender-plants planted when everything is warmer. P9 lavender-plantss are never shipped before the beginning of May in any event. If you are not happy with these timings, please order elsewhere - we guarantee our plants and like to see them do well.

Mind your Munstead

Well, in fact, Munstead requires little minding. Lavenders are the superheroes of the garden being almost indestructible with their ability to tolerate drought or stony soil, be immune to disease and to 'give back' the whole year round. And Munstead is top of the class in all respects. It will frame any number of herbaceous perennials - Achilleas, Peonies, Penstemons - but is renowned for combining with roses. It associates particularly well with yellow, orange or white roses like Fruhlingsgold or Jacqueline du Pre or Lady Marmalade. But its drama lies in being grown as a hedge, especially along a path of grey stone or gravel where it intercedes between hard and soft landscaping and merges the two so that the effect is seamless. In fact, in order to satisfy lavender-plants's need for warmth, you can grow it surrounded by dark slate which will absorb and reflect the heat of the sun and make it feel right at home. Lavender is often regarded as a herb being part of the medicinal and culinary pharmacopoeia and as such has a rightful place in the herb garden along with all the other wonderful smells and colours that pertain to Mediterranean herbs. There is an art to keeping lavender-plants going year in and year out and preventing it from becoming woody. Cut it back by two thirds in the second half of August once the flowers have faded. Nowadays the experts say that if necessary you can even cut into the bare wood if you do it at this time because our warm autumns mean that the new shoots that will quickly arise at the base of the bush will have enough time to grow and harden up before winter comes. And if you want to be sure that your lavender-plants will combine and follow on from the main flush of June roses then you can delay its flowering time by giving it another quick and very light trim in April.

Features

Use: Plant at 33cm intervals for hedges and edges or use as a herbaceous perennial
Height: 50 cm
Spread: 50 cm
Colour: lilac/purple flowers
Shape: medium spike
Aspect: south facing
Scent: strong, lavender-plants
Flowering: summer
Leaves: evergreen, silvery-green

A mini masterpiece

Munstead Wood was the garden created by Gertrude Jekyll and, unusually, it came before the house designed by Edwin Lutyens that sits in it. Jekyll was a masterful plantswoman and grew and bred her own plants to her exacting standards, studying habit, culture, form and colour. These she would then use in her garden designs which embraced the precepts of the Arts and Crafts movement as exemplified by William Morris.

Growing Munstead Lavender plants

Munstead Lavender needs a sunny position and well drained soil. English Lavender (any lavender-plants with "angustifolia" in its Latin name) plants do not mind the cold and will take hard frosts easily. But they absolutely HATE wet ground in winter. This is one of the reasons they grow so well in pots which tend to be dry 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. Do not improve the soil with traditional "good stuff" such as compost or bonemeal. Lavender likes poor soil and will flower better if it is not overfed. Water newly planted lavender-plants well and keep it watered until the plants show that they are clearly in growth. At that point stop watering and just let them get on with it. You should never need to water again as they are wonderfully drought resistant once established.

Prepare your site before planting

Your lavender-plants hedge will be with you for quite a few years if it is looked after. It is therefore well worthwhile digging over the area where you plan to plant. The purpose is not to improve the soil, but to make sure drainage is good and that perennial weeds and rocks, roots and other rubbish have been removed.

There's a longer guide on how to plant a lavender-plants hedge here

Care for your Lavender plants

After you have planted your Munstead Lavender hedge, the most important thing to do is water it in dry weather while it is establishing – 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 8 weeks 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 or 2 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 & disease:

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.

We also have a longer advice page on how to prune lavender-plants plants. We recommend pruning twice a year to get the best out of them but we also cover what to do with older plants that have got a bit 'leggy'.

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Delivery: Our standard delivery charges are:

Small box (Orders containing only seedlings or rooted cuttings) £7.20 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Standard box (Bareroots up to 1.2m) £11.40 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £60 inc VAT)
Large box (Pots up to and incl. 7.5L) £15.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £100 inc VAT)
Trees & Hedging (Bareroots & trees 1.2m+) £18.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £120 inc VAT)
Pallets (Root balls, large pots, trees etc) £60.00 including VAT per order (FREE For ORDERS Over £240 inc VAT)

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.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

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.

Ashridge Nurseries is working as normal and the despatching of bareroot plants is underway.

You can see Current Delivery Information Here. We are now taking orders for delivery in February 2021.

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Munstead Lavender Hedge Plants

Lavandula angustifolia Munstead