Lavender 'Hidcote'

Lavender Hidcote One of the best-known varieties of English lavender! No summer garden should be without this traditional favourite! Be creative with your lavender: its mounds of fragrant grey-green foliage are ideal for borders, hedging, in pots, or in combination with other architectural plants such as agapanthus. Hang bunches of flowers to dry and use it in potpourri indoors. Hidcote - It's dense, intensely aromatic, silver-grey foliage is covered, in summer, with spikes of fragrant, deep violet flowers. Middle of border variety. Height: 60cm (24). Spread: 75cm (30). Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. There are many ways to use lavender flowers, both in sweet or savoury dishes. Make a delicious lavender sugar and add to biscuits, sorbets, jams or jellies. Add flowers to vegetable stock and create a tasty sauce for duck, chicken or lamb dishes. For more details about edible flowers click here.