Manor Farm Herbs: Rosemarys Lavenders Cotton Lavenders and Hyssop
Cotton Lavender
Santolina chamaecyparissus
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Cotton lavender is a small and strongly aromatic shrub with very pale grey woolly leaves. It is traditionally clipped into a hedge and used for edging in knot gardens. Unclipped plants produce bright yellow button-like flowers in summer.
Cotton Lavender 'Lemon Fizz'
Santolina chamaecyparissus 'Lemon Fizz'
This spectacular small shrub is a new introduction, with stunning acid yellow foliage and a compact, tightly growing habit. This cotton lavender positively glows with colour throughout the year.
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Hedge Germander
Teucrium divaricatum
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Hedge Germander is a small perennial evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves and spires of deep pink flowers in June and July. It makes a good edging plant that can be trimmed to form a low evergreen hedge.
Germander Silver
Teucrium x Ackermannii
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Silver germander — a little known creeping cultivar — a compact and mound forming little shrub with silvery grey-green foliage and clusters of scented purple-pink flowers in summer.
Hyssop
Hyssopus officinalis
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Hyssop is an unfamiliar perennial herb that deserves much greater popularity. It is a small semi-evergreen bush with green minty scented leaves and highly attractive purple blue flowers in late summer.
Pink Hyssop
Hyssopus officinalis
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Hyssop is an attractive flowering shrubby herb which deserves greater popularity. It has scented green foliage and colourful pink flowers in late summer. An ideal plant for the herb garden or the border, and also very effective planted as a low growing hedge.
Hyssop white flowered
Hyssopus officinalis
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Hyssop is a lesser known perennial herb which deserves greater popularity. It makes a small bush with scented, green foliage, and in the case of the white form, shining white spires of flowers in late summer. Ideal to plant in many situations in the garden.
White lavender
Lavandula x intermedia 'Edelweiss'
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A more unusual lavender with pure white flowers and lovely silvery grey foliage, the flower colour contrasts well with the more frequently grown purple flowered varieties. It is more compact than some other white lavenders and this makes it ideal for planting as an informal aromatic hedge, either alone or mixed with other lavenders of a similar size.
Lavender Hidcote
Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote'
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Hidcote is one of the most popular of dwarf lavenders. It has a compact habit and dark purple flowers. A superb garden plant either alone or as a small hedge, with many culinary, medicinal and cosmetic uses.
Lavender 'Grosso' (Dutch lavender, Lavandin)
Lavender x intermedia 'Grosso'
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A taller, hardy lavender with a bright silver foliage and long lilac flower spires. This is the lavender grown extensively in Provence for the perfumery industry and so has an intense aroma and is naturally very popular with all pollinators.
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Lavender Kew Red (French lavender Kew Red)
Lavandula stoechas 'Kew Red'
This is a striking french lavender with aromatic, grey foliage and two tone flowers — ruby red florets on the main flower head topped with long, pale pink bracts.
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Lavender Melissa Lilac
Lavandula angustifolia 'Melissa Lilac'
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Lavender is one of our most popular garden shrubs. Melissa Lilac is a form of English lavender similar to the well known Lavender Hidcote but slightly taller. It has aromatic silvery foliage and, in summer, stunning large flower spikes showing the best lilac colour.
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Lavender x allardii 'Meerlo'
Lavandula x allardii 'Meerlo'
Lavender Meerlo is an exceptionally attractive variety with bright light green foliage, variegated with pale cream on the edge of each leaf. The foliage is especially fragrant. In mid summer it produces tall spires of typical pale blue lavender flowers. This is quite a tender variety of lavender and needs to be kept dry and protected from frost in winter.
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Rosemary
Salvia rosmarinus
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Rosemary is a woody perennial herb with green fragrant needle-like leaves. It flowers from early spring, often before the daffodils, with pale blue/lilac blossoms along the length of the younger stems. This is one of the most popular culinary herbs — every garden should have at least one rosemary plant!
Rosemary 'Roman Beauty'
Salvia rosmarinus 'Roman Beauty'
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A beautiful rosemary with dark green leaves and dark blue/violet flowers in spring and early summer. It is compact and semi-upright, reaching 50cm in height.
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Rosemary 'Green Ginger'
Salvia rosmarinus 'Green Ginger'
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A popular compact and bushy upright rosemary with striking blue flowers in spring. As well as border and herb garden planting it is ideal for hedging and edging. The rosemary flavour of the foliage has a ginger overlay making it a star in the kitchen. Recently awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit.
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White-flowered Rosemary
Salvia rosmarinus 'Alba'
A choice plant with masses of white flowers in spring and an upright habit. The flowers positively glisten in the spring sunshine, contrasting with the dark green foliage. Like all the rosemarys it has a great flavour to add to your cooking.
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Prostrate or Creeping Rosemary
Salvia rosmarinus Prostratus group
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Like all rosemarys this herb is an evergreen perennial. It has low trailing growth and from early spring onwards the arching stems are covered with abundant sky blue flowers.
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Rosemary 'Miss Jessopp's Upright'
Salvia rosmarinus 'Miss Jessopp's Upright'
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Miss Jessopp's Upright is a strongly growing upright variety of rosemary, which should definitely have a place in every herb garden. It has fine silvery green foliage and abundant pale blue flowers in spring.
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