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Hidcote is the most popular and traditional, deep purple-blue English Lavender.
The newer, very similar variety Havana has rave reviews, with many growers comparing it favourably to Hidcote.
A great low ornamental evergreen hedging plant.
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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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.
Spacing a Hidcote Lavender hedge: Like most evergreen hedging, the default spacing is 3 per metre, 33cm apart in a single row.
Hidcote blooms after the "other favourite" English Lavender variety, Munstead, which also has paler, more true Lavender coloured flowers.
Hidcote is ideal as a low hedging or edging plant for all flower borders and kitchen gardens. The flowers are imperial, deep purple with a good balance between the height of foliage and flower spikes.
It is wonderfully bushy, but ever so slightly shorter and slower growing compared to other English lavender varieties like the paler Munstead. There isn't much in it, but Hidcote suits tight spaces and containers a bit better than more vigorous cultivars.
The pale, silvery, evergreen foliage reflects the light joyously throughout the year; the flowers are a big bonus. Left to itself, it forms a rounded muffin-shaped bush that adds structure to the front of a herbaceous bed, softening the boundary with a lawn or path, and it can be clipped beautifully into simple geometric shapes.
Hidcote's violet goes well with pink roses like Nathalie Nypels. In a potager, Hidcote makes a welcome change from Box when used as elegant, dark flowered edging for a bed full of herbs, which often have purple flowers themselves.
Read our guide on how to grow lavender, with a quick pruning video, and the best time to prune lavender.
Major Lawrence Waterbury Johnston’s mother bought Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire in 1907; beginning in 1910, Lawrence (1871-1958) went on to create perhaps the most famous Arts and Crafts garden.
Despite being known for Hidcote, his passion was Serre de la Madone, his larger, relatively private garden in Menton, France, which was not continued after his death, contrary to his wishes. Hidcote lavender was probably selected in France.
Major Lawrence bred and selected his own plants throughout, also introducing a Penstemon 'Hidcote Pink' and a Hypericum 'Hidcote Gold'.