This is Spanish Lavender I found while walking around Meadowlark Gardens, in Vienna, Virginia. Their home page is here. The photos were taken some years ago.
Spanish Lavender is also called French Lavender, Topped Lavender, Butterfly Lavender and Fringed Lavender. Its botanical name is Lavandula stoechas.
It is an evergreen and blooms in the spring and summer, attracting bees and butterflies due to its nectar rich flowers. I love its scent as the flowers and leaves are very fragrant and can be used for potpourri and essential oil, and used in aromatherapy.
Spanish Lavender is one of about 45 species. It is a native to the Mediterranean, so it thrives in hot, dry climates and is less tolerant of cold weather compared to other lavender types. It is unique for its pineapple-shaped flower heads topped with distinctive bracts that resemble rabbit ears. It also attracts pollinators like bees and butterflies due to its nectar-rich flowers. They do well in landscaping or in pots, and I certainly would love a few of those pots around here.
Thanks for looking and have a great day!
(This is actually tomorrow’s post and one of those I occasionally post too early. I didn’t want to reset it though, as I know new posts show up in your feed, and how confusing it can be when it suddenly disappears. Therefore I am leaving it as is. There won’t be another post appearing at midnight. This is it until my regular one tomorrow at midnight.)
Me encanta la lavanda. Te mando un beso.
ReplyDeleteTambién me encanta la lavanda, es muy bonita y tiene un perfume maravilloso. Gracias y te mando un beso.
DeleteWonderful!
ReplyDeleteVery happy you like it Cloudia, thank you :)
DeleteIt is lovely
ReplyDeleteThank you Christine :)
DeleteLovely pictures
ReplyDeleteThank you Linda :)
DeleteI grew this lavender once when my garden had more sun light. Now it's too shady. I did love it and the critters it attracted.
ReplyDeleteHello Leslie, I have a lot of shade in my garden also. If I ever moved to a new place, which to be honest is doubtful at this point, I would have a place with lots of sunshine all around our home :)
DeleteI have never heard of or seen this before!! And you got great photos. I love lavender, it is one of my favorite scents. I wonder if this smells the same as regular lavender?
ReplyDeleteThanks Ginny, I can't remember if it has the same scent. I'll have to make a point of finding out this summer. Woman will be seen sniffing different types of lavender all through the garden, lol!
DeleteI love the scent of lavender! They are beneficial for sleep too.
ReplyDeleteMe too and I have heard that. I ought to buy some. I used to have a bottle of it somewhere :)
DeleteLovely lavender Denise!
ReplyDeleteWe are waiting for spring and together with its flowering and its smell!!
Have nice day my friend!!
Thank you Katerina, here too. I am looking forward to seeing the flowers bloom again. You have a nice day also my friend :)
DeleteLovely things. I spray lavender oil on my pillow case to help me sleep. And years back I stayed at a bed and breakfast that dried their bed linen on lavender bushes in the sun. Bliss.
ReplyDeleteThat's a wonderful scene you put into my head, with the bed linens drying on the lavender bushes in the sun :) Bliss indeed! Thank you for sharing that Sue, and I am going to start spraying my pillow with lavender also. I will have to buy a new bottle, I can't find my old one. I hope all goes well my friend x
DeleteVert pretty, I love the scent of lavender. Take care, have a wonderful day!
ReplyDeleteMe too and thank you Eileen. You take care and have a wonderful day also :)
DeleteFor some reasons, most of lavenders I find in Melbourne are Spanish ones.
ReplyDeleteThat's very interesting Roentare. Thank you for sharing that :)
DeleteWe have this lavender in our garden. It's pretty.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful! I bet it is pretty Margaret :)
DeleteI have several kinds of lavender in the garden and fortunately they seem to flower at slightly different times so I can almost always enjoy the perfume. Have a good week Diane
ReplyDeleteThat's so nice to have them bloom at different times. You have a good week also Diane :)
DeleteHmmm, I've tried to grow lavender and it didn't survive well. But I do love it!
ReplyDeleteIf I remember Val, I did too and had the same result but this is going back a few years. I think it is because the way our house is in relation to the sun. We seem to get more shade than anything :)
DeleteI love lavender, but cannot grow it, which is strange, because we have had two large rosemary shrubs for years, which are thriving. No doubt, I'l try again this year.
ReplyDeleteSame here Janice, I think I will try again this year, just to see :)
DeleteI bet the aroma was lovely too.
ReplyDeleteVery much so but it's been a while. I need to re-aroma in the spring :)
DeleteIt's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI thought so too, I was quite taken with it. Thanks Ann! :)
DeleteI love all the pretty varieties of lavender. Lovely photos, Denise.
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty isn't it? Thanks Ellen :)
DeleteI use Lavender, lemon, rosemary and vanilla essential oil in my diffuser...YUMMM
ReplyDeletehugs
Donna
Those all sound wonderful Donna :) Sending hugs!
DeleteThat first photo is gorgeous. I have tried to grow different lavender here. It gets too cold, so no luck.
ReplyDeleteHi Sandra, we get a very humid summer so perhaps they thrive in it here. I tried once growing it in our garden but was unsuccessful. I'm going to try again this summer :)
DeleteOh such pretty warm lavender...join the growing number of those who post early...but I say better early than not at all
ReplyDeleteHugs cecilia
Thank you Cecilia, such a nice thing to say about me posting early. Sending hugs! :)
DeleteCan't imagine what it must smell like to walk in a field of lavender! :)
ReplyDeleteI would like to find a very big field, that's for sure. Thanks Rita :)
DeleteLavender is such a wonderful plant. It's beautiful and very soothing.
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed, all that you say. Thanks Carol :)
DeleteLovely lavender and that first picture is stunning.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
Glad you enjoyed Jan, thank you and all the best :)
DeleteI love Lavender in the garden! The only problem is that here in South Devon, we’ve had so much rain, I’m sure that all my lavender plants hate it!
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting Sal, I'm beginning to realize that lavender is very much a fine weather flower :)
DeleteSuch a beautiful plant! I can almost smell it! Would love to have some in pots around the house, if possible in our tropical climate.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thursday, Denise!
I would love to put pots of lavender around the house. I'm going to at least try to put some pots around the house. Thank you Veronica Lee, I wish you every success growing them. Happy Thursday to you, actually I am now writing this the following Tuesday as I am running late answering all these lovely comments again. So happy Tuesday and see you next time :)
DeleteThat is truly gorgeous, Denise. Oh, wouldn't that be a glorious one to have in your garden.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I would love to see our garden full of lavender. Thank you Jeanie :)
DeleteThe Spanish Lavender is beautiful. I used to see it grace the entrance of the homes that I lived in my hometown. Anything purple, and I'm there. ; ) What lovely photos, Denise.
ReplyDelete~Sheri
Thank you Sheri, I appreciate that very much. I love that purple color too :)
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