Provence French Lavender – 5 Pack Of Quart Pots

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Perennial Herb

Flower Color:  Soft Lavender

Flower Size: Small flowers packed on spikes

Flowering Period:  Late Spring to Mid-Summer

Flower Type:  Spikes

Fragrant Flowers:  Yes

Foliage Color:  Silvery-Green

Fragrant Foliage:  Yes!

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Butterflies, Visual Attention, Sensory Appeal

Resistances:  Deer, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

A Lavender plant that stands up to the hot and humid summers in the South (USDA Zone 9b), while also also handling cold climates as far north as USDA Zone 5a, ‘Provence’ is also known to be one of if not the most fragrant lavenders in existence, with both foliage and flowers being extremely aromatic. Beginning in late spring or early summer and continuing to mid or late summer, loads of large (3″ long) soft lavender flowers rise above the mounds of attractive silver-green foliage. Lavender plants don’t like wet feet so make sure to choose a well-drained site.

Growing 30 to 36 inches tall and wide, Provence Lavender is ideal for use as an accent, in groupings or mass plantings, or as a low hedge in landscape and perennial borders and herb gardens. Mass plantings are truly breathtaking. It has also done well for us in container gardens, which can be overwintered indoors above Zone 5a. A fine selection for herb gardens, perennial gardens, purple theme gardens, cottage gardens, and rock and fragrance gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  24 to 30 inches apart for mass plantings or solid borders; 4 feet apart for space between plants

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Lavender variety is not winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Lavender is easy to grow in a moist to somewhat dry well-drained soil of average to low fertility and plenty of sun. Constantly soggy soil or standing water is a killer, so make sure the planting area has well draining soil. 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 36 inches tall you can cut it back to 24 inches tall. 

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