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Description

Get an instant cottage-garden look with this winter-hardy Lavender 'Hidcote'! Ideal for a low border and packed with heady scent.

Lavender 'Hidcote' is the classic hardy English perennial, and this much-loved cottage-garden favourite will transform your garden with colour, incredible fragrance and reliable flower power! It can be seen in some of the smartest gardens across the country.

Awarded the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit, this compact variety is ideal for edging paths, creating a fragrant hedge or adding structure to a garden border, where its magnificent scent can be enjoyed. It is also an excellent choice for attracting pollinators.

Incredibly easy to grow, very hardy and drought tolerant, this lavender can also be clipped for fragrant indoor arrangements or homemade potpourri.

Growing up to 60cm tall, a hedge of traditional English lavender can be used in many different ways. Plant it around beds, borders or paths, use it to divide areas of your garden, or create an eye-catching parterre or knot garden. Space plants 30cm apart.

Once established, a lavender hedge is extremely drought tolerant. Keep it in great shape by pruning twice a year. Trim lightly in mid to late summer, removing the spent flower heads, then prune again in early spring, removing around 2.5cm of growth. You can even cut the stems for fragrant indoor dried displays!

Supplied as a set of 10 garden ready plants, ready to plant.

Top Tips

In late summer, clip the plants back lightly after the flowers have faded to encourage more growth - cut the stems back by a few inches, but not so far that the stems are bare of live foliage, and plants will then have time to produce new shoots before winter dormancy.

Care Information

This drought-tolerant plant thrives in a sunny border, container, herb or gravel gardens.
Lavender can be planted at any time of the year, as long as soil conditions are not frozen or waterlogged, but for best results plant between April and May when the soil is starting to warm up.
Lavender thrives in most free-draining soils in full sun. Heavier soils should have some grit added to improve drainage and to open them up.
Space plants 90cm apart, or if growing a hedge, 30cm apart or, 45cm for larger cultivars.
Lavender can be grown in large pots, 30-40cm diameter, using a multipurpose or loam-based compost such as JI No 3, with some extra coarse grit, roughly a third, to improve drainage, along with some controlled release fertiliser granules.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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