Lavender 'Elizabeth'

Fill your garden with colour, fragrance, and pollinator-friendly blooms with Lavender 'Elizabeth'. This elegant variety produces masses of richly coloured purple flower spikes above compact, silvery-green aromatic foliage, creating a beautiful display from early to mid-summer.

Renowned for its calming fragrance, Lavender 'Elizabeth' is perfect for borders, cottage gardens, rockeries, and patio containers. Its highly scented flowers are loved by bees, butterflies, and other beneficial pollinators, while the fragrant stems can be harvested fresh or dried for bouquets, potpourri, sachets, and floral arrangements.

Easy to grow and drought tolerant once established, this hardy perennial thrives in full sun and well-drained soil. Its neat, bushy habit and long-lasting blooms make it an excellent choice for adding year-round structure and seasonal interest to any garden.

Features:

• Highly fragrant purple flower spikes
• Aromatic silvery-green evergreen foliage
• Attracts bees, butterflies, and other pollinators
• Ideal for borders, containers, rockeries, and cottage gardens
• Flowers suitable for drying, bouquets, and potpourri
• Hardy, low-maintenance perennial
• Thrives in full sun and well-drained soil

Whether you're creating a relaxing sensory garden, supporting local wildlife, or harvesting fragrant blooms for the home, Lavender 'Elizabeth' is a beautiful and rewarding addition to any garden.

• Latin Name: Lavandula angustifolia 'Elizabeth'

  Type: Evergreen, Perennial

  Soil Type: Well-drained

  Where should I plant this variety? Full sun

  How tall does it grow? Approx 60cm

  How much space does it need? 50cm

  When does it flower? Mid to late summer

  Top care tips: Prune back regularly, especially after flowering.

   
  

  Delivery Information

• Hidcote Lavender is an old favourite that continues to delight us. It is a really traditional variety of Lavender that is hardy and puts on a great show of flowers in mid to late summer. Absolutely worth growing as bees flock around the flowers as a nectar source, providing a much needed source of pollination.

  There is something about the smell of Lavender that we find re-assuring, comforting and soothing. And the flowers look really cool!

  RANDOM FACT ALERT. Apparently Queen Victoria used Lavender when making biscuits and we know it remains popular with cake and bake fans today.

• Delivery options explained

   

  Pre-order delivery option

  From January to March, customers are able to pre-order herbs for delivery later in spring, to ensure that you receive the unusual varieties that you desire. We begin dispatch of pre-orders from late March, once all items in your order are available for dispatch in one delivery, as some varieties will be available a little later in the year than others. You will receive notification when this dispatch takes place along with tracking information but if you would like an estimated delivery date after placing your pre-order, please do not hesitate to contact us.

  Order Now delivery option

  From late March to autumn, herbs will be available for immediate dispatch subject to their availability. We dispatch our fresh potted herbs Monday-Wednesday each week to avoid postal delays over the weekend. We aim to dispatch all fresh herb orders in less than seven days, i.e. an order placed Thursday-Sunday would likely be dispatched the following Monday. Orders placed Monday-Tuesday, we would aim to dispatch by the Wednesday of that week.

  If you have a specific dispatch date that you would like us to aim towards, please do not hesitate to let us know. We can't guarantee a particular date but will strive to do our best for you.

  Dispatch information

  All orders are dispatched via a next day courier, ensuring that your herbs reach you promptly and in good health. For customers in the Highlands and Channel Islands this is a 48-hour delivery service. (From 2021 onwards we are unable to ship to Northern Ireland.)

  Please note that we do not offer a collection service. Our site is not suitable to receive visitors and this is a rule that we have to apply universally out of respect to our neighbours and family.

   

  Packaging

  
  We aim to reuse packaging as much as possible. Your herbs will be delivered in taupe recyclable pots. We are moving over to using plastic blister cell packaging which contains at least 90% recycled content and is itself 100% recyclable. These things are important to you and are important to us.
  
  

  Customer satisfaction

  Occasionally due to circumstances beyond our control, problems can arise. If you are not satisfied in the condition of your plants upon reaching you, please contact us as soon as possible providing pictures so that we can deal with your enquiry and feedback to our courier service. We will endeavour to ensure a resolution is reached that leaves you satisfied.