When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Beautiful and heavenly scented — lavender certainly has a way of brightening ...

Growing lavender at home sounds really simple. You just need to find a bright and open patch of land in your garden, plant it, and wait for all the fragrant blooms to appear, right? Well, not quite.

Ah lavender. What’s not to love? What other plant gives you so many benefits for so little effort. It comes in all kinds of colors. Yes, not just lavender. But also blues and pinks and whites. It is ...

With its dreamy hues of purple and nostalgic scent, lavender (Lavandula) is a timeless shrub. It evokes cottage gardens and quaint countryside villages with its charming simplicity. But you don't need ...

Lavender plants are a great addition to the garden: they are easy to grow and last for years! But when incorrectly pruned, they can become woody, unruly, and much more challenging to care for. So, ...

Lavender is a delightful and useful garden plant. It can be used as a drought-tolerant low hedge, a specimen plant, a cut flower, and an herb that provides a fragrant addition to any garden. As garden ...

If you’re not able to jet off to Provence this summer to tour the lavender fields, why not grow your own? This Mediterranean herb has been cultivated for thousands of years for both medicinal and ...

Dreaming of Provence and romantic, fragrant lavender fields washed in violet-blue? You can find sweet dreams much closer to home. Texas has a surprising number of lavender farms that offer such an ...

Cissy Chen and Derrick Wong play the piano outdoors in the lavender viewing garden at Happy Day Farm in Manalapan, N.J., Sunday, June 26, 2022 Bee on lavender in the lavender viewing garden at Happy ...

When Rita Rodelli read an intriguing article in Better Homes & Garden magazine about harvesting a lavender garden in the spring of 2004, she never dreamed that others would be writing about her own ...

There’s only one place in New Jersey where you’ll find a garden with two outdoor bathtubs, a sailboat and a working pink piano. They’re nestled in a field full of hundreds of full bloom lavender ...