Boething Treeland Farms grows over 1,000 varieties of trees, shrubs, perennials and specialty plants on 9 California nurseries to serve the wholesale landscape and nursery industries throughout the Western United States and beyond.
Plant Type: Shrubs
Evergreen-Deciduous: Evergreen
Overall Mature Size: Medium
Also Grown As: Bush
Mature Height & Spread: 4-5' x 3-5'
Natural Growth Habit: Dense, Mounding, Upright
Native To: Cultivar, Hybrid, Mediterranean
Exposure: Full Sun
Water: Medium Water, Low Water
Flower Color: Blue / Lavender / Purple / Violet
Bloom Time: Spring, Summer, Fall
Special Features: Attracts Birds/Butterflies/Bees / Cold Hardy / Deer Resistant / Desert Conditions / Drought Resistant / Fragrant / Hedge / Screen / Seacoast Conditions
Container Sizes: #1, #5
Sunset Garden Zones: 8, 9, 12-24
USDA Hardiness Zone: 8-10
Lavandula heterophylla is a broadleaf, evergreen shrub with an upright, dense, mounding habit and featuring olive-green to bright mint-gray-green narrow leaves and dark violet-blue to lavender-purple whorled blooms on slender terminal spikes. Flowers and leaves are strongly aromatic; not recommended for culinary use. Uses include low hedges and borders, mass plantings, containers. Tolerant of urban conditions. It is excellent in seacoast landscapes and tolerates desert conditions. Requires regular irrigation when installed and acclimating; low water needs once established. Best practice is to allow the soil to dry out between deep watering. Thrives in lean, sandy, or gravelly, well-drained alkaline soil. It easily suffers from root rot in heavy, soggy clay. It requires full sun. It will tolerate light afternoon shade in desert climates, but heavy shade yields leggy, dull green growth and few blooms. Resistant to Verticillium wilt. Deer and rabbit-resistant. Cold hardy to 20°F.
Lavandula heterophylla is a broadleaf, evergreen shrub with an upright, dense, mounding habit and featuring olive-green to bright mint-gray-green narrow leaves and dark violet-blue to lavender-purple whorled blooms on slender terminal spikes. Flowers and leaves are strongly aromatic; not recommended for culinary use. Uses include low hedges and borders, mass plantings, containers. Tolerant of urban conditions. It is excellent in seacoast landscapes and tolerates desert conditions. Requires regular irrigation when installed and acclimating; low water needs once established. Best practice is to allow the soil to dry out between deep watering. Thrives in lean, sandy, or gravelly, well-drained alkaline soil. It easily suffers from root rot in heavy, soggy clay. It requires full sun. It will tolerate light afternoon shade in desert climates, but heavy shade yields leggy, dull green growth and few blooms. Resistant to Verticillium wilt. Deer and rabbit-resistant. Cold hardy to 20°F.
