Looking for Lavender (that's actually lavender...)
ebharvey1
7 years ago
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seil zone 6b MI
7 years agoLove Song is always lavender, never pink in any way. It also doesn't gray out as it ages.
nanadollZ7 SWIdaho
7 years agoRelated Discussions
lavender-colored rock sure looked pretty at the quarry....
Comments (8)Hmmmmm: Got the message. But now I'm so curious what they look like that I'm sure my imagination is worse than the rocks really are. Try to take a picture of a couple of them there barney rocks just to get us off your back. Please. OK, if you put them around plants, put them with trailing lavender ones so they blend in better. Not yellow or red. Next spring try more trailing plants or maybe some evergreen type around the edge that will grow over and hide them. OOOH Girl, thats alot of money and hard work to try and hide. Wish I had some better suggestions. Might come up with something if I had an idea of type of house or yard. Is it an acreage or city lot? What look are you wanting, casual, formal, cottage ect? How much area are you trying to cover or include? If you go to the Garden Junk they will probably tell you how to paint those rocks, but like most of us they too would wonder, WHY PAINT LAVENDER ROCKS! They really sound pretty, they just need to be placed differently. It could be that it is just so different than what you have had that it is hard to accept, I've done that with paint in the house. I have to have about a million people tell me that it looks good before I can believe it because I've lived with white walls so long. If you've had a plain yard, barney rocks would be a visual adjustment no matter where you put them. Just trying to be helpful, or push you over the edge. (pics please) Aunt Net...See MoreConfused about Drying Lavender. Looking for advice.
Comments (4)The best part of lavender to use for a sachet or potpourri is the flowers, although every part of a lavender plant has scent and I suppose could be used if you want. A lavender flower has two parts. There is the calyx, which is the part attached to the stem, that people may call a "bud," and that later holds the seed. This colors up first and stays on the plant longest. Then there is the corolla, which opens up and attracts bees. I'm giving you a link to a site that has a good picture of this. Click on the "Advice" link and you'll find pages about lavender and also some information on other dried flowers. For the best fragrance, you want to harvest a stem of lavender when corollas have appeared on just one or two flowers, but it's ok if a few have bloomed and even fallen off -- just don't wait until all the corollas have bloomed and the stem has gone on to making seeds. My guess is that in a garage in Visalia a bunch should dry in 3-5 days, certainly no more than a week. You shouldn't have to add oil to your lavender if you're making a sachet, and I don't think time of day makes a big difference as far as harvest goes -- the bulk of the fragrance is in essential oil that's inside glands in the plant. For a sachet, strip the dried flowers from the stems. If the stems are long enough to be worthwhile, you can gather them into a bundle and tie with a nice broad ribbon -- we sell these as "lavender logs." They can be used as fragrant kindling, but I think they're much nicer just kept in a living area and occasionally rolled between your palms -- they'll release fragrance. I just looked at what comes up on Amazon.com when I search for "dried flowers," and I don't recognize anything -- books on the subject come and go. Maybe someone else can recommend a good book that's easily available these days. Here is a link that might be useful: Goodwin Creek Gardens...See Morea perennial that looks like lavender
Comments (12)Well Emily, Lavandula pinnata does lack the typical fragrance assocciated with most lavenders, so it could possibly be that. The name 'risdoni' doesn't mean anything to me off-hand. The only thing I know of is Eucalyptus risdonii, which obviously has nothing to do with your plant. Are you sure the tag comes from this plant? Sorry I can't be of more help. Cheers, Dee....See MoreLavender and Lavender Cotton from cuttings.
Comments (4)Thank you Darlene! Everything I've read has said to take the new tender growth, so that's interesting. I will try taking some more hardened growth next... I'll try anything at this point. It looks like, out of at least 28 cuttings, I may have one survivor holding on... so... progress? Not exactly the 90% success rate that everyone talks about :( Ultimately, I'm hoping for about 4 or 5 Lavender Cotton plants to fill in one space of my garden and 4 more of my Munstead Lavender to finish out a small hedge. Definitely too hot to try and root them outside right now - though I did try it for some of the lavender cotton (it was doomed from the start). I've been hoping that starting indoors will have more success - I'm also going to try a lighter seed starting mix next instead of the potting soil. I will try a few out in the garden soil this fall to see how they do. I've got a few more sheltered places in the garden where they may survive. When they do finally root outside, do you dig them up and move them, or are you rooting them in small pots outside that can be moved around?...See Morechris2486
7 years agoPoseidon should grow just fine is Zone 6A. It is more pink lavender in bud and a silver lavender on open flowers in warmer weather. It is certainly lavender and not red.
Sara-Ann Z6B OK
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoI agree with both Seil and Diane on Love Song, always lavender. I haven't had Poseidon long enough to say for sure, seems more silvery lavender, both are beautiful. The color might depend on where it's grown.
Poseidon
Love Song
rosecanadian
7 years ago
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
7 years agolast modified: 7 years ago
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
7 years ago
eweandbee
7 years ago
Lynn-in-TX-Z8b- Austin Area/Hill Country
7 years agolast modified: 7 years ago"I wonder if pH plays a role in the tint of a rose color". The sun definitely does, especially farther south.
Love Song remains lavender.
nanadollZ7 SWIdaho
7 years agoMy lavender roses tend toward slightly bluish and my soil is alkaline, so the pH theory doesn't hold up around here. Diane
Love Song
lauriescreams
7 years agoI'm obsessed with lavender roses! Perhaps the one I have that tends most towards the blue aspect is Blue Bajou, but its pastel colour is very difficult to photograph. It has several buds at the moment. I'll try to get a good photo when the open.
Two lavenders which I grow and love - Blue Moon and Bering Renaissance:
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lauriescreams's ideas · More InfoI also grow Twice in a Blue Moon, but I find that it tends more towards a silvery pink than the other three:
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dublinbay z6 (KS)
7 years agoAll these lavender roses--I may swoon from an overdose! : )
But before I do, I just have to add my wonderful (and new) Love Song also:
Mine just started their second bloom cycle in my garden, and the roses are just as lovely as they were in May. Only now they have to contend with 100 degree heat--so far, successfully.
Kate
Prettypetals_GA_7-8
7 years agoebharvey1
7 years agoThanks for all the comments, and Love Song recommendations - I think that's the winner. I can't wait to rip these "blue" girls out of the ground. Here's how not-blue they are, just in case anyone thought I was being overly-picky:
almost as offensive a shade as a pink knockout - maybe even worse since its a 4" bloom.lauriescreams
7 years agochris2486
7 years agoebharvey1
7 years agodublinbay z6 (KS)
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agolauriescreams
7 years ago
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This is my best Blue Bajou flower so far - I'm actually not sure that it's a bluer shade of lavender than Blue Moon or Bering Renaissance. I seem to recall one member here saying that it needs the cooler autumn temperatures (or perhaps the slightly more acidic and wet autumn soil) to appear bluish. Or perhaps the more bluish pictures I've seen of it are simply a matter of it being photographed under more shaded lighting conditions. But for a rose that doesn't carry the gene for the blue plant pigment delphinidin (only the genetically engineered rose Applause does this, I believe), Blue Bajou still looks too blue to be filed under pink, IMO.
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