Looking for compact, fully hardy lavender.

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  July 2020

  As long as they're in full sun and well drained soil they can cope.  I had a lavender hedge at the top of a sleeper retaining wall in my Belgian garden and it coped with periods of -25C several winters in a row and lots of rain and snow too but a bit warmer at -10 or -15C.

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

  "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."

  Plato
  

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• Buttercupdays Posts: 4,546

  July 2020 edited July 2020

  Mine are! I've got 2 different ones and they've withstood being buried in snow, -12 and the Beast from the East so they must qualify
  

  Don't remember what they are though, they've been there donkey's years.
  

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• edhelka Posts: 2,351

  July 2020

  I am no lavender expert but it looks like intermedia, not angustifoila, and not hidcote. It could be 'Hidcote giant' which is an intermedia.

  I would say any angustifolia would be good. I really like Downderry Nursery for lavender - you can check them, at least to read about possible varieties: https://downderry-nursery.co.uk/shop/hardy-lavender/angustifolia/
  

  
  

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• Butterfly66 Posts: 970

  July 2020

  I agree with @edhelka. The flowers also looks too pale , Hidcote is quite a rich deep purple rather than “lavender” colour

   If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
  East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham

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• KT53 Posts: 9,016

  July 2020

  Thanks for all the advice.  I'll check out the sites and options.
  

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• KT53 Posts: 9,016

  July 2020

  I was at a nursery today and what they are selling as Hidcote matches the description given by Butterfly66.  I think I'm a few years too late to demand a refund, even if I could remember where I bought them.
  

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