Hello Lavender Fans! This is the third week of our guide to Hitchin Lavender. We will be looking forward towards the weekend as well as giving you all the information about the week just gone. Let’s go! Next week… (14/7/2017 – 20/7/2017) How will the Lavender be looking? We are pretty well at full bloom right
Hello lavender fans! We hope you’ve had a great weekend and that your Monday has treated you OK! Today we will be looking at the variety of lavender of which we have the most: grosso… Grosso is a variety of lavendin (follow the link to find out what that really means) and makes up the vast majority of
Hello Lavender Fans! Welcome to week two of the Lavender Digest, your one stop shop for news about Hitchin Lavender. We will be looking at the week just gone, but first I will give you some information about the farm for next week. Next week… (7/7/2017 – 13/7/2017) How will the Lavender be looking? We
Hello lavender fans! In a new series of posts, we will be discussing a little about the history of lavender growing in the Hitchin area. Recently, our museum of the Perks & Llewellyn pharmacy was opened to the public and I thought it would prove prudent to give you a little context about this space!
Hello Lavender Fans! Welcome to our first weekly installment of The Lavender Digest! Here we will be giving you our forecast of the coming week, as well as what has been going on at the farm over the last seven days! Next week… (30/6/2017 – 6/7/2017) How will the Lavender be looking? We are very
Hello lavender fans! Apologies for the two week absence in the blog. With the weather getting hotter and the lavender getting more purple, we have been super busy and haven’t been able to find time to give you more information about our favourite purple plant. Speaking of being busy, we have an announcement regarding this
Hello lavender fans! Following the blog post on Folgate lavender last week – one of the first lavender to come into bloom at the farm – we thought that we would focus on the other varieties that surround this flower on our main field! At Hitchin Lavender in the first seven rows, after the first ten
Hello lavender fans! As we are coming to the beginning of our blooming season in the next few weeks, we at Hitchin Lavender thought it would be a good idea to look at the one of the first lavenders that will be coming into bloom in the next few weeks in the main field. We
Hello lavender fans! This post will be a bit of an introduction into the species and varieties of lavender, giving you some consumer advice as to which lavender you should buy. There are 39 different species of lavender in the world, but here at Hitchin Lavender we only have two of them planted in the
Hello lavender fans! In the last of the ‘Lavender Growing Series’, we shall describe the best conditions to plant your lavender in the ground, for all of you who have established pots of the plant and for those of you who are looking to buy in some lavender for your garden. Lavender definitely grows at
