Platinum Blonde Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia ‘Momparler’ PP23834
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-9b (5?) Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Perennial Herb
Height at Maturity: 16-24″
Width at Maturity: 18-20”
Spacing: 15-18″ for mass plantings or solid borders; 30″ for space between plants
Spacing: 15-18″ for mass plantings or solid borders; 30″ for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Upright Rounded Mound
Growth Rate: Moderate
Flower Color: Lavender-Blue
Flower Size: Medium size clusters
Flowering Period: Mid Summer to Early Fall
Flower Type: Single, packed on spikes
Fragrant Flowers: Yes
Foliage Color: Grey-Green with Creamy Yellow margins
Fragrant Foliage: Yes!
Berries: No
Berry Color: No
Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun (6 hours or more sunlight per day)
Water Needs: Average, low when established
Soil Type: Clay (amend heavy clay to ensure good drainage), Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Damp to moist But Well Drained, drought tolerant when established
Soil pH: 6.7 – 7.5 (Neutral to Slightly Alkaline)
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Butterflies, Beneficial Pollinators, Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer, Drought (when established), Heat, Insect, Rabbit
Description
A multiple award winner, including Plant of The Year at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, England, ‘Platinum Blonde’ is a top notch English Lavender sporting showy variegated leaves of soft grey-green with wide, creamy soft-yellow margins that make this plant glow in the sunny garden. Beginning in early summer in the South and mid summer in the North and continuing through early fall, spikes of strongly fragrant, soft lavender-blue flowers rise above the neat and compact foliage mound. The flowers are a magnet to butterflies and other beneficial pollinators, and are excellent for cutting and use in flower arrangements and sachets. Also a fine culinary herb with a savory and sweet flavor. The fragrant foliage and oils from lavender are a staple in aromatherapy for their stress-relieving properties. Excellent for pots, garden beds and landscape borders. Just give this one at least 6 hours of sun per day and very well-drained soil and watch it grow.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 18 to 24 inches tall and nearly as wide, the Platinum Blonde Lavender is ideal for use as an accent in smaller garden spaces or a solo or combined with other plants in containers, and groupings or as a border in landscape and perennial borders. Mass plantings are truly breathtaking. A fine addition to herb gardens, rock gardens, fragrance gardens, culinary gardens, cottage gardens, butterfly and beneficial pollinator gardens.
Suggested Spacing: 15 to 18 inches apart for mass plantings or solid borders; 3 feet apart for space between plants
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Growing Preferences
Lavender is easy to grow in a moist to somewhat dry well-drained soil of average to low fertility and plenty of sun. It has good drought tolerance when established. Constantly soggy soil or standing water is problematic. If desired, the plant can be cut back by one-third its height after flowering to maintain a fuller plant. For example, if your plant is 18 inches tall you can cut it back to 12 inches tall.
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