Lavender - and you already feel like you're in Provence

Lavender - a wonderful feeling of «Provence» in your own home.

And you also have the choice: between compact-growing short and tall-growing species, between varieties that produce purple, blue, white and even pink flowers.

In the garden, the most common is true lavender (purple, white, pink).

But the distinctive Spanish or French lavender (pink-purple, white) is also increasingly popular.

Lavender grown in Provence is called «lavandin» (flashy blue-purple) and is a hybrid that blooms later and has a very strong scent.

Two other strongly scented species are fringed lavender (light blue) and spike lavender (purple-blue).

Lavender not only looks good as a potted plant or in a balcony box, but also as a flowerbed border or as a plant to place with roses because lavender's essential oils keep aphids away.