English Lavender 'Hidcote' Hedging Plants
Grow A Classic Lavender Hedge! Rich Flowers, Wonderful Fragrance And Evergreen Structure Along Paths And Borders
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Key Features
RHS Garden
Merit
Merit
RHS Perfect
Pollinators
Pollinators
Scented /
Fragrant
Fragrant
Perfect
In Pots
In Pots
Plant
In Sunshine
In Sunshine
Winter
Hardy
Hardy
Width: 75cm
Height: 60cm
Height: 60cm
- Create a beautifully defined lavender hedge around paths, borders, beds or parterres, for neat structure, rich summer colour and unmistakable English garden character
- The classic hedging plant for decoration and long season interest, 'Hidcote' is one of the best varieties
- Deep purple flower spikes rise above aromatic silvery-grey foliage in early to midsummer, filling the surrounding air with classic lavender fragrance
- Plant approximately 25cm apart to develop a continuous low hedge, with the young plants growing together to fill the spaces over the following seasons
- Bees and butterflies flock to the nectar-rich flowers, bringing extra life and movement to the garden while supporting valuable pollinating insects
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Description
Seen in some of the swankiest gardens across the country, lavender 'Hidcote' is the classic, hardy English Lavender, and will transform your garden with colour and incredible fragrance!
The silvery grey foliage and pure purple blooms are packed with a heady scent and will provide you a colourful spectacle from early to mid-summer. 'Hidcote' is one of the most aromatic varieties, grown widely in the fragrance market, yet is a great garden variety too. The purple flowers are also a magnet to bees, butterflies, and other beneficial creatures, which will have your garden buzzing with wildlife - literally!
Growing up to 60cm tall, a hedge of traditional English lavender can be used in many ways. Try planting it around beds, borders, or paths, to divide up parts of your garden or to make 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 spent flower heads. Prune again in early spring, removing about 2.5cm of growth. You can even cut the stems to make fragrant indoor dried displays!
Top Tips
In late summer, clip the plants back lightly after the flowers have faded. 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
- These drought-tolerant plants thrive in sunny borders, containers, 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, 25cm apart or, 45cm for larger cultivars.
- Lavender can be grown in large pots, 30-40cm diameter, using a multipurpose or loam-based compost, 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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