If you’re not able to jet off to Provence this summer to tour the lavender fields, why not grow your own? This Mediterranean herb has been cultivated for thousands of years for both medicinal and ...

Get expert instructions for growing lavender in your backyard or indoors. This fragrant perennial can thrive in many areas of ...

Few flowers give such good return as lavender. The edible flowers, which look and smell beautiful in bloom, can be cooked into intriguing desserts and main dishes. The plant itself, be it green or ...

Ah lavender. What’s not to love? What other plant gives you so many benefits for so little effort. It comes in all kinds of colors. Yes, not just lavender. But also blues and pinks and whites. It is ...

Growing lavender at home sounds really simple. You just need to find a bright and open patch of land in your garden, plant it, and wait for all the fragrant blooms to appear, right? Well, not quite.

Of all the flowers in the garden, lavender is probably one of the most popular and easily recognized for its beautiful purple spiked blossoms and aromatic fragrance. Native to the dry slopes that ...

When Rita Rodelli read an intriguing article in Better Homes & Garden magazine about harvesting a lavender garden in the spring of 2004, she never dreamed that others would be writing about her own ...

Rats. Or is it squirrels? Could be both. After having great success in keeping four-legged creatures out of Our Garden, we’re starting to see some slight damage in the tomatoes and squash. Young ...

Arrive at Chris and Jackie Pinard’s home this time of year and you are welcomed by a curve of purple – long lanes of lavender plants flanking the gravel drive. They form fragrant ribbons that thread ...