Re: lavender Q

One of the best sources of lavender that I know of is Pépinière Filippi which is located on the coast of France near Mèze. I don't think he has a website but his e-mail address is olivier.filippi@wanadoo.fr. He has 73 different lavenders and lots of other Med climate plants listed in his 128 page catalogue. Tel. 04-67-43-88-69. He's also a member of the MGS.

Richard La Rose
Els Lledoners de l'Empordà
Girona
España

http://www.elslledoners.com
Country Guest House / B&B


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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: lavender Q


On 4 Apr 2005 at 14:49, Nan Sterman wrote:


Which species/variety of lavender has green leaves rather than
gray/green or silver?

Nan


Nan
I've come in a little late on this topic, but would like to endorse what
has already been posted.  Certainly L.viridis (native to Portugal and
SW Spain) is considered one of the greenest lavenders with regard to
foliage.  It grows in the wild alongside the acid-loving L. stoechas
subspecies but I have certainly found it does well in cultivation in a
neutral medium. The apical bracts vary in colour from a very pale
creamy green to almost yellow - it is sometimes called the lemon
lavender for this reason, and I suspect because of the lemony scent to
the foliage.

The other contender , as Jan suggested, would certainly be L.
canariensis.  The variety found on Tenerife (ssp canariensis) is a bright
green, contrasting beautifully with its vivid blue flowers.  In the wild,
you can see it from a long way off.  This subsp seems to be the one
normally found in cultivation but if you are lucky enough to come
across the subsp from the more westerly islands, here the foliage is a
deeper colour, more of a pine green, and mostly lacking in the scent.
Beautiful flowerheads, though.

I would agree with Sean that L. dentata var dentata is also in the
running for greenness of foliage and it is such a beautiful flower spike,
one of my favourites.  There is a pink flowered version of this,
collected in the Anti Atlas in Morocco.  I had a piece some years ago
from Tim Upson (Cambridge BG) and passed material on to
Downderry Nursery in Kent UK but the owner tells me it doesn't sell
very well. A pity, because it's a good pink and not muddy like some of
the pink-flowered angustifolias.  There is also a  white-flowered form
which I haven't seen but hope to come across in my lavender
wanderings one day.  (I have the white flowered cultivar of var
candicans cllaed 'Pure Harmony' which I believe is more widely
available now).

Joan
Editor, The Lavender Bag


















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