Organic Lavender ❁ Common English ❁ 100 Seeds Heirloom Flowers - Non GMO

• Genuine Ancestry Seed Bank
• Special Design packaging
• Planting & Growing Instruction read the seed packet
• Professional DEFRA licence and Soil Association Organic Certified. UK based company
• Everything we sell is 100% ORGANIC
• Non GMO

Soaking needs to be done at least a few hours before planting, and preferably overnight. To prevent damping off when starting seeds indoors, it’s essential that you disinfect all of your plastic grow trays, seed cells, and seedling tray covers before you reuse them. It is widely believed that lavender first originated from the Mediterranean, the Middle East and India, around 2500 years ago. It’s known that the Egyptians made perfumes with lavender and when Tutankhamun’s tomb was opened, traces of lavender were found and its scent could still be detected. Lavender is thought to have been originally introduced to the UK several thousand years ago by the Romans. Being a natural antiseptic, it was used amongst other things to dress battle wounds. In fact, the Romans had many uses for the plant and they employed it to help repel insects, to cook and to wash with. Lavender is one of the oldest perfumes used in England and in the 1500’s, Queen Elizabeth I used it both as a perfume and in her tea to treat migraines. Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia), with its aromatic leaves and sweetly fragrant flower spikes, is often considered an herb. But it is actually an herbaceous perennial with a semi-woody growth habit. A dwarf shrub that is broadly mounded, English lavender grows up to 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Dense spikes of fragrant, pale to deep purple, summer flowers and steely, grey-green foliage. This compact English lavender makes a fabulous, flowering informal hedge. Perfect for a sunny, well-drained site the fragrant flower-spikes are highly attractive to bees and other beneficial insects.