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Lavandula ang. 'Hidcote' / 9Cm
Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote'
Confirmed format: 9cm Pot
Plant Highlights: Deep violet-purple flower spikes • Intensely fragrant evergreen foliage • Compact, bushy habit • Excellent for pollinators • Ideal for borders, edging and containers
Overview
Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote' is one of the best-loved English lavenders, renowned for its richly coloured violet-purple flower spikes and highly aromatic silver-grey foliage. Flowering through summer, it brings colour, fragrance and structure to sunny borders, herb gardens and patio containers. Its naturally compact, rounded habit makes it particularly well suited to edging paths, creating low informal hedges or planting in drifts where the fragrant flowers and foliage can be enjoyed up close.
Why We Love It
'Hidcote' is a classic garden favourite thanks to its compact habit, richly coloured flowers and exceptional fragrance. It is equally at home in formal borders, cottage gardens and Mediterranean-style planting, where it provides reliable colour and year-round foliage.
Plant Details
| Botanical Name | Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote' |
|---|---|
| Common Name | English Lavender |
| Plant Type | Evergreen shrub |
| Foliage | Evergreen, aromatic, silver-grey |
| Flower Colour | Deep violet-purple |
| Flowering Season | Summer |
| Position | Full sun |
| Soil | Well-drained soil |
| Habit | Compact, rounded |
| Mature Height | 30cm – 50cm |
| Mature Spread | 50cm – 75cm |
| Hardiness | RHS H5 (−15°C to −10°C). Requires free-draining soil and protection from prolonged winter wet. |
Growing Guide
| Planting & Soil | Plant in a sunny position with free-draining soil. English lavender performs best in poorer soils with excellent drainage and dislikes prolonged winter wet, making raised beds, gravel gardens and containers ideal in heavier soils. |
|---|---|
| Watering | Water regularly while establishing, then only during prolonged dry spells. |
| Pruning | Trim lightly after flowering to maintain a neat, bushy shape, avoiding cutting back into old woody stems. |
Perfect For
- Borders
- Path edging
- Herb gardens
- Patio containers
- Gravel gardens
- Low informal hedges
Good to Know
- The nectar-rich flowers are highly attractive to bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects throughout the flowering season.
- Dislikes prolonged winter wet; ensure free-draining soil or pot drainage.
Product Information
| Supplied Format | 9cm pot |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | Evergreen shrub |
| Sunlight Exposure | Full sun |
| Seasonal Interest | Produces fragrant deep violet-purple flowers above aromatic silver-grey foliage during summer |
Growing & care
- Plant type
- shrub
- Position & light
- Full sun
- Watering
- low
- Soil & drainage
- Well drained· Free draining
- Mature size
- 30cm high· 50cm wide
- Flowering
- Purple· Violet· Multicolour
- Foliage
- evergreen
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