If you had to choose only one herb to put in your garden, you could do a lot worse than lavender. This gorgeous, fragrant and pollinator-attracting plant manages to check nearly every box in a ...

English lavender, also referred to as common lavender, is often considered an herb though it is actually an herbaceous perennial with a semi-woody growth habit. It provides good midsummer color to the ...

A beginner-friendly guide to growing beautiful lavender plants from seeds at home. #Lavender #Gardening #FlowerSeeds Want a better brain as you get older? Neuroscience says stay far away from these 3 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Purple heads of lavender in the sunshine If they are planted in the right place and given the right care, lavender bushes can last ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Fortunately, some lavender varieties, such as English lavender, are easy to grow in your garden at home.

Growing lavender is supposed to be easy. That’s what everyone says. And yet it might be the single most commonly killed plant in the American backyard garden. The cruel irony? Most of the time, it isn ...

Lavender (Lavendula spp.) is a gorgeous plant in the Lamiaceae family. There are many varieties of lavender, but all come with that familiar and intoxicating aroma. It is a very pretty plant that is ...

Do you have lavender plants in your garden? If so, how are they looking? It turns out that some local gardeners’ lavender isn’t doing very well after our very tough winter. About 20 years ago, my ...

If you enjoy the colour and beautiful scent of lavender in your garden come summer, there's a 10-minute task you need to be doing once a year.