Lavender

Lavender Gift Ideas
Beautiful Lavender
Lavender is one of the best loved of the most popular essential oils. It has a calming and soothing effect, and may help promote better sleep. Many like to use lavender oil in a diffuser to enjoy the lovely scent. Lavender has health benefits as well. Featured here are a collection of lavender gift ideas, available from Amazon. Lavender makes a great gift for yourself or for someone else. Growing lavender at home is becoming increasingly popular as well. I hope you enjoy this lens dedicated ...

Grow Your Own Lavender Plant
Lavender: The Most Versatile Plant In Your Garden
If you can only plant one new flower this year or you only have room for one more pot on your windowsill, it should be lavender. Not only is it beautiful and fragrant, it's one of the most versatile plants you can grow. Lavender is a member of the mint family and in centuries gone by it's been used to aid digestion, as a cold rememedy, to relieve menstrual cramps, and to treat acne and migraines, headaches and rhuematic fever. Today we use it as a soothing herb in bath salts and teas, as a ...

Lavender - Things You Can Do With Lavender
Lavender is a hard working herb. You can simply enjoy its soft scent, soaking in a hot tube laced wi
By Sharon Stajda,   Cooking, Crafting, Pampering, and Healing With Lavender... Lavender flowers are pretty when used in a vase - However, tastes so good when baked in cookies, and added to Martinis! Once lured by the fragrance of the lavender, you may find you are hooked on this little purple wonder. Picture this, It's a gloomy spring day, I thought to myself? What could possibly cheer me up on a day like today? It hit me - a visit to my favorite local nursery. Yeah, this would be just the ...

Growing Lovely Lavender Herb Plants, Easy, Fragrant Herb Plants for Dry Gardens
Lavender herb plants make great additions to any drought tolerant garden
Lavender is an aromatic herb grown for centuries and appreciated for its fragrant, purplish blue flowers. These drought-tolerant shrubs take full sun to partial shade outdoors. They can take moderate water, but can also survive in low water gardens once established (usually after a year). The flowers bloom on long, square-shaped stalks and buds can be up to two inches long.

The Paso Robles Lavender Festival
Lavender is One of Our Best Loved Herbs
So many people in Paso Robles love it that they turned out in droves to the Second Annual Lavender Festival in the City Park on July 10, 2010. They came to learn more about the uses of lavender, to taste food and drink with lavender as an ingredient, to learn how to grow lavender, to buy a variety of lavender plants, and just to get out and have a good time. Even though I confess to growing a bit of lavender myself, I have never made the most of what I have. I grow it because it's drought-res...

All About Lavender and its Benefits
Welcome to All About Lavender and its Benefits
Lavender is a beautiful herb that is well known and used all over the world. It is known for its gentle fragrance and many useful qualities. It is grown in Europe, Australia, the United States and Canada. The latin word for lavender is "lavore" which means "to wash". Lavender comes in many different varieties. A popular type is called English Lavender which has over 40 different named varieties. I will share herbal and culinary uses of this amazing herb. Lavender is known for its great stress...

How to Grow and Use Lavender
Lavender is an herb native to the Mediterranean. It's scent is subtle and old fashion. Image credit: by VeloBusDriver http://www.flickr.com/photos/thelebers/935317940/sizes/s/