Woolly lavender
Lavandula lanata
Ground coverPlacenta
Production
A silvery, wool-leaved lavender built for baking-hot dry banks and poor soil — bees love it. Less frost-hardy than common lavender, so give it sun, grit and no wet feet.
Tolerances & traits
- Strata
- Ground cover
- Lifecycle
- Placenta
- Soil preference
- Sandy, Rocky
- Soil pH range
- 6.5 – 8
- Min. temperature
- -8°C
- Min. rainfall
- 350 mm/year
- Wind tolerance
- Medium
- Frost tolerance
- Low
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Irrigation needed
- Low
How to manage it
Silver, woolly-leaved aromatic sub-shrub for hot dry banks; shear lightly after bloom to keep it compact.
Watch out for
More frost-tender than common lavender and rots fast in damp or heavy soil; never cut into old wood.
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