Munstead Lavender

Lavandula angustifolia 'Munstead'


This fabulous variety is a fragrant, robust lavender that, due to its short size and tightly held blooms, makes a great low hedge; it can also be massed in the garden; blooms profusely in spring and is then a fragrant gray green shrub

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Features and Growing Tips

Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.

Landscape Qualities

Munstead Lavender is a dense multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a mounded form. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which should be used to full effect.

Ornamental Qualities

Munstead Lavender has masses of beautiful spikes of fragrant purple flowers rising above the foliage from early to late summer, which persists throughout the winter.

Planting and Growing

and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years., Munstead Lavender will grow to be about 16 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 18 inches. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a slow rate

and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. It is not particular as to soil type, and will often die in standing water. It is considered to be drought-tolerant, but has a definite preference for alkaline soils, This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers dry to average moisture levels with very well-drained soil

Plant Facts

Prefers full sun

Deer Resistant

Keep moisture level dry to average

Mature Size 18"Hx18"W

Cutflower Favorite

Flowers are purple with strong fragrance

Flowers from early to late summer

Attracts butterflies

Fall color copper

Zone 4b

Likes well drained soil