Plant Information

Common Name: LAVENDER - FRENCH, ROYAL CROWN
Scientific Name: Lavandula dentata

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R95.00

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Description

• Perennial
• Evergreen bushy shrub with linear green leaves and blue cut flowers.
• Half hardy. Full sun. Attract bees and butterflies.
• Flowers are up to 5cm long.
• Will need a light trim after winter.
• Ideal for hedges, lining walkways and mass planting.
• Plant 1½m apart for a hedge.
• Replace every 3-4 years.

Culinary Uses

• Flowers:
• Add sparingly to salad, honey, sugar, biscuits, cakes and scones.
• Decorate dessert and confectionery.
• Leaves:
• Instead of Rosemary, add a few twigs off lavender to chicken and roast lamb.
• Add flower buds to honey, scones etc

Parts Used

• Leaves and flowering spikes.
• Pick throughout the growing season.

Medicinal Uses. It is said that

• Antiseptic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic.
• Oil:
• Promotes healing of tissue: burns, blisters, sunburn and scald.
• Prevent scarring and soothes pain.
• Antibacterial: skin ailments - eczema.
• Calms children and relaxes adults.
• Eases headache.
• Hair rinse for lice and nits.
• Apply to cuts, scrapes, earache, insect bites and stings.
• Tea with the flowers:
• Treat nervous exhaustion, tension headaches, insomnia, colic and indigestion.
• Weak infusion - to babies for colic, irritability and excitement.

The information contained within this website is for educational purposes only. This site merely recounts the traditional uses of specific plants as recorded through history. Always seek advice from a medical practitioner.

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