Re: Sudden Death Strikes Lavender

We had a severe drought here in Marlborough last summer.  During that
time lavendar growing along my gravel driveway self-seeded in the
driveway.  (Along with Kowhai and Chrysanthemums).  It may have had some
water when other parts of the garden got watered, but I didn't give the
lavendar beds any watering.  Lavendar seems to do really well without
much water.

One olive farm and nursery in this area sells lavendar plants.  They
have lavendar along their boundaries which doesn't appear to be watered. 
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trevorn@torrens.tafe.sa.edu.au said:

There are 100's of acres of Lavandula stoechas naturalised in the
foothills of the Adelaide Hills, just where the suburbs end at Burnside,
Glenunga, Waterfall Gully, Greenhill, Mt Osmond, Montacute, Norton
Summit and these are totally neglected except where they get burned to
the ground in bushfires and eaten by horses, goats and farmed deer. And
they flourish. We treat them too, too kindly in our gardens.
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