Lavender
Herb Description
Lavender is a ever green culture cottage garden plant. Its gray-green spikes of foliage and purple flowers provide color all year. The dried flowers have been one of the main ingredients of potpourri. There are hundreds of varieties but the tried and true large form of English Lavender is hard to beat. Fast growing, long blooming, long lived, hardy, sun and drought tolerant properties are heaven sent characteristics for western gardeners.
The lavender flowers use in salads to add beautiful color . Lavender can also be substituted for rosemary in many bread recipes. For the preparation of cake, buns or custards Lavender flowers can be put in sugar and sealed tightly for a couple of weeks . Grind the lavender in a herb or coffee grinder or mash it with mortar and pestle. Lavender is taken from the Latin "lavare" which means "to wash" and that is just what the Romans did with lavender. The English variety - Lavendula angustifolia (also called as L. officinalis, L. Vera and L. spica) . There are lot of cultivars such as Hidcote (dark purple), Jean Davis (pink), Nana Alba (white). Lavandin which is a cross between lavender and spike ( Lavandula latifolia ) can only be grown from cuttings.
Lavender is a heavily branched short plant that grows to a height of roughly 60 centimeters. Its broad rootstock bears woody branches with erect, rod-like, leafy, green shoots. A silvery down covers the gray-green narrow leaves, which are oblong and tapered, attached directly at the base, and curled spirally.Some varieties have flowers of pale pink, dark purple, white, or magenta and are harvested toward the end of flowering season when the petals have begun to fade . lavender is mostly used for treating many skin complaints including acne, itchy or cracked skin, acne, blisters, warts, abscesses, boils, and eczema.
Herb Description
Lavender is a ever green culture cottage garden plant. Its gray-green spikes of foliage and purple flowers provide color all year. The dried flowers have been one of the main ingredients of potpourri. There are hundreds of varieties but the tried and true large form of English Lavender is hard to beat. Fast growing, long blooming, long lived, hardy, sun and drought tolerant properties are heaven sent characteristics for western gardeners.
The lavender flowers use in salads to add beautiful color . Lavender can also be substituted for rosemary in many bread recipes. For the preparation of cake, buns or custards Lavender flowers can be put in sugar and sealed tightly for a couple of weeks . Grind the lavender in a herb or coffee grinder or mash it with mortar and pestle. Lavender is taken from the Latin "lavare" which means "to wash" and that is just what the Romans did with lavender. The English variety - Lavendula angustifolia (also called as L. officinalis, L. Vera and L. spica) . There are lot of cultivars such as Hidcote (dark purple), Jean Davis (pink), Nana Alba (white). Lavandin which is a cross between lavender and spike ( Lavandula latifolia ) can only be grown from cuttings.
Lavender is a heavily branched short plant that grows to a height of roughly 60 centimeters. Its broad rootstock bears woody branches with erect, rod-like, leafy, green shoots. A silvery down covers the gray-green narrow leaves, which are oblong and tapered, attached directly at the base, and curled spirally.Some varieties have flowers of pale pink, dark purple, white, or magenta and are harvested toward the end of flowering season when the petals have begun to fade . lavender is mostly used for treating many skin complaints including acne, itchy or cracked skin, acne, blisters, warts, abscesses, boils, and eczema.
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