Growing Baskets Full of Lavender

Lavender and other flowers feed pollinators and more

Today ’s photos amount from Eileen deCamp in Charlottesville , Virginia .

I love growing lavender ( Lavandulaspecies and hybrids ) , but it can be take exception in our Virginia clime with humidity , clay soil , and rain ! Here is a photograph of a assembly basket I found at an antique shop fill mostly with ‘ Super Blue ’ , ‘ Melissa ’ , and Hidcote lavender . you could see the Melissa lavender bush at remaining , with Munstead lavender in the back . These are all great culinary lavender . I bed create shortbread and ice cream and bestow lavender to peach cobbler and blueberry jam ! YUM !

A splendiferous harvest of fragrant lavender .

Honeybeesenjoy lavender at least as much as homo do .

dealings jam on a Mexican helianthus ( Tithoniarotundifolia , annual ) as a hummingbird and a butterfly stroke both try and get a sip of the ambrosia .

Cosmos ( Cosmosbipinnatus , yearly ) . This wonderful yearbook is easy to grow from seed and gives warhead of flowers in return for very little work .

conclude - up of a peculiarly rich - coloredcosmos . If you save semen from your favorite works of cosmos each year , you ’ll get more in the gloss you like best .

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