Beezee Dark Blue Lavender Plants

Dwarf, Early Flowering Blue-Purple English Lavender

Latin Name: Lavandula angustifolia 'Beezee Dark Blue'

Beezee Dark Blue is cleverly marketed as "mini-Hidcote", Hidcote being the all-time bestselling English Lavender.
Beezee has Hidcote's rich blue-purple colour, and dense flowers despite the large reduction in size.

• Order now, pay later: we don't charge your card until before delivery
• When your order is ready: your mail order Lavenders 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

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.
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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 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. We don't recommend planting P9s out later: larger plants are stronger and will do better over their first 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)
  You can safely plant these and larger plants out later in the growing season.
• 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 Beezee Dark Blue Lavender hedge: Like most evergreen hedging, the default spacing is 3 per metre, 33cm apart in a single row, but you can squeeze this compact variety closer together at around 25cm.

About Beezee Dark Blue Lavender Plants

Features

• Most Popular Mini-English Lavender
• Use: Low hedging / edging, ideal for containers
• Flowers: Spikes of rich purple-blue
• Flowering: June/July to September
• Scent: Strong, lavender
• Leaves: Evergreen, aromatic. Silvery when mature
• Height x Spread: 40cm x 40cm
• Unappealing to deer, rodents
• Drought tolerant when established
• Culinary herb
• RHS Plants for Pollinators

Growing Beezee Dark Blue Lavender

• Aspect: Full sun, South facing 
• Soil: Well drained is vital, poorly fertile is preferable
• Soil pH: Above 6.5 is best. Likes chalk
• Hardiness Rating: H5 (to -15C)
• Suitable for the coast and windy locations
• Ideal for large pots & containers 

In Your Garden Design

Beezee Dark Blue is a superb dwarf lavender ideal for really low front of border edging, and containers.
The flowers are deep Hidcote-purple with similar bushy, grey-silver foliage to under 40cm.

Lavender is already a fab patio plant - it's the right size and loves the drainage of pots. 
Being so compact, Beezee Dark Blue is the go-to lavender for large container designs where you want the hedge effect of lavender in rows, but suited to the scale of your container. 
Other lavender varieties are often used that way for one-year designs, but if you want to keep it in place and clip it yearly then Beezee Dark Blue works very well around the edge of big pots, troughs, etc! 

Planting Instructions & Aftercare

Read our guide on how to grow lavender, with a quick pruning video, and the best time to prune lavender.

Trivia Facts

The Beezee series of five colours is from plant breeders Kerley & Co in Cambridge. They look great mixed together, but we had to pick one colour, and a dark Hidcote blue is The One.

Lavender FAQs

• What's the difference between English, Dutch, and French "Butterfly" Lavenders?
• Can I grow Lavender in the Shade?
• Which Lavender variety is best for cooking?
• Harvesting Lavender Flowers for Oil or For Drying
• Potted Lavender 8:8:8 Watering Rule - More of a Guideline, really

Contact Us

• For general enquiries, use our Contact Us form
• If there is any issue with an order you've placed, or for a quote for a large order, our Sales & Support line is 01963 359 444