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White lavender
Hi folks,
Before I make an expensive mistake I really need your help.
I want to line my raised bed with white lavender - I don't want anything stupidly small but also not so large it will swamp everything else in it's path and make it difficult to get in the house.
It's a toss up between arctic snow and edelweiss and I have no idea as I've never seen either - I'm buying mail order from lavender world.
Has anyone seen these as mature plants? I want the lavender to gracefully "lean" over the edge of the raised bed rather than cowering behind it, especially as the wood is very new and will take some time to weather.
The raised bed is quite large, around 6 foot by 12 foot and I'll be planting path side and end only.
Many thanks.
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When I say raised bed it's about 6 inches raised path side, higher the other side as it's a retaining wall for next doors collapsing drive :-o
I'm planning on stuffing the whole bed with white flowers, plants and evergreens with white flowers. I'm putting sarcococca confusa up the house wall - the bit you can't see.
White roses are going down down the middle. Then there will be some white flowering hebe and azaleas for an evergreen background as winter is long and will fill in with white cosmos and perennials for summer.
I think white will look nice next to the grey brick which will fade when it weathers anyway.
Last edited: 27 July 2016 15:01:40
I'd go for Arctic Snow - slightly neater in habit, I think.
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That's the one I like best to be honest. I was worried it wouldn't quite be big enough to flop over the edge.