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Hidcote Blue English Lavender
Lavandula angustifolia ‘Hidcote Blue’
Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote Blue' is one of the world's most beloved and iconic English lavender cultivars, prized for its exceptionally deep violet-blue flowers, compact mound-forming habit, and intense, classic lavender fragrance . This award-winning perennial forms a dense, tidy, silver-gray to gray-green foliage mound. From late spring to early summer, it produces an abundance of short, sturdy spikes of richly colored, deep violet-blue flowers that rise just above the foliage, creating a stunning, uniform display . Unlike some lavenders, it has a single, heavy bloom period, but the flower color is exceptionally rich, and the fragrance is unmatched. The aromatic flowers and foliage are highly prized for essential oils, culinary uses (baking, teas, herb blends), sachets, and potpourri. With its compact, dwarf habit, excellent cold hardiness, drought and heat tolerance, and deer resistance, it is an outstanding choice for low hedges, borders, rock gardens, containers, and mass plantings, and it holds the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit .