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EU medicinal and culinary herb with blue-purple flower spikes beloved by bees and butterflies. Can be clipped as a low hedge. Leaves used in cooking and herbal medicine.
Lavandula × ginginsii
herbA fellow Lamiaceae — similar growing habits to Hyssop
Start Hyssop indoors about 6 weeks before your last frost. Seeds usually come up in around 14 days. Move seedlings out once the danger of frost has passed, in full sun, spaced about 30 cm apart. Expect to harvest in roughly 90 days.
Water: Low · Height: 60 cm · Soil: Well-draining, chalky, alkaline — drought-tolerant