Sunday, 10 June 2012

English Garden: Lavender farms



As a garden plant lavender works on many levels, from old-fashioned cottage style to making a contemporary statement planted in rows or patterns, in single colour blocks or as a simple filer for a formal parterre. People love lavender because it seems to evoke fond memories of childhood and the lazy days of summer. There’s nothing quite so amazing in the garden as a lavender-lined path with the plants just billowing over it and the gorgeous scent and sound of bees! 


While the old areas of large-scale commercial lavender growing have all but vanished in places like Mitcham in Surrey and Hitchin in Hertfordshire, a few English farms remain such as the old established Norfolk Lavender and now some small new enterprises, including Carshalton Lavender, have sprung up as farmers diversity their crop growing. 


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