10 Graines Lavande papillon, Lavandula stoechas

Lavandula stoechas, Spanish lavender, topped lavender | Graines reproductibles, Graines Non Traitées

Lavandula stoechas is a species of Lavender very floating. She wears the biggest flowers of the genre.

It is sometimes called Papillon lavender, Stechade lavender, Lavender in Toupet, Maritime lavender, Spanish lavender or Lavender of the islands of Hyères.

10 seeds

• Aromatic shrub very branched with dense white-gray fertured foliage, up to 1 M high.
• Flowers in pseudo dense spikes of square cut.
• Use : pots, massifs...
• Maintenance : Size after flowering.
• Sol : Draining, acid.
• Flowering : Violet-Bleu, from April to June.
• Rusticity : -3 to -7 ° C.
• Watering and fertilization : water as little as possible, even if summer is hot ; fears humidity ; The fertilizer is useless.

Under the name of Stoechas Arabic, its flowers could be one of the multiple constituents of the Thériac of Maritime Pharmacopoeia West in XVIII^E century1.

The butterfly lavender is one of the 5 main plants used by the Blue Tit to protect its nest against the parasites2.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/lavandula_stoechas