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Lavender

chri.millettchri.millett Posts: 2
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I am an expat living in southern Norway where temperatures can get to minus 15. Can anyone suggest a type of lavender that can survive the winter?

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  • MarlorenaMarlorena Posts: 8,705
    It's difficult to advise without knowing what Lavenders are available to you in Norway,  but assuming you can get these, then Lavender x intermedia or Lavender angustifolia are all hardy to at least -15C and probably lower....  
    So if you see any of those then you should be alright I would think.

    A couple of favourites of mine which have survived my garden in East Anglia England, which can occasionally suffer from severe winter weather, are Lavender x intermedia 'Gros Bleu'... 'Grosso' and 'Grappenhall'..

    Lavender angustifolia 'Hidcote'... 'Maillette''. and 'No. 9'... but I wouldn't know if you can get any of these..  angustifolia is of course English Lavender... 

    These are the only types of Lavender I know of that are hardy at least to those temps..
    East Anglia, England
  • chri.millettchri.millett Posts: 2
    Thanks for the advice. I'll buy some plants next time I am in the UK. Buy the  way, I grew up in Norwich!
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    They will survive better if on very well drained soil. Wet roots in winter  will kill them.
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    fidgetbones said:
    They will survive better if on very well drained soil. Wet roots in winter  will kill them.
    Absolutely this. It got down to those temperatures often when i lived in the NE of Belgium but the soil was light and well drained so they survived. 
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    Lavender also enjoys soil with some lime in it. I have started giving mine, here in Cornwall, an annual dusting of lime. My plants are growing in a raised bed so are well drained. I crossed everything and gave them a severe haircut last autumn, cutting down into woody growth, knowing I was risking losing them but they have grown better than ever, just coming into flower now. I am surprised they have done so well after the rigours of the Beast from the East which hit us earlier this year and their haircut. 
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