Time to Harvest Lavender Flowers?
Monday August 21, 2006
Lavender flowers make for pleasing borders within a landscape design. The attraction in growing lavender, however, doesn't end there, since lavender flowers are aromatic and can be harvested and dried for indoor use. But to maximize aroma, you have to harvest lavender flowers at the right time; use these pictures as a guide. The pictures appear on a site that made Time.com's list of 50 Coolest Websites. I found that list only because I had navigated to Time.com from a Lifehacker entry by About.com's own Wendy Boswell. Oh, the wonders of the Web!Photo ©2006 David Beaulieu (licensed to About, Inc.)
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I love to grow and harvest lavender so I can enjoy all year round! I did a post about my first harvest..yes I get more than one!
I am waiting for my second harvest! In a zone 6 I have success with Munstead!
Thanks so much for the info about when to Harvest LAvendar. Mine is actually halfway in flowers now, so I may be a little late. But the harvest on 2 of my plants is very wonderful.
Thanks!!!
Lavender got its name for its fragrance made Jesus Christ’s clothes sweet. For more than thousand years, this little purple plant is used to be condiment that could give our clothes nice smell. And nowadays, the essential oil of lavender after extract and purity is the best choice for the nervous people in the cities. Sometimes have a walk in the lavender field and let these little purple elves stay on your hem could be a great joy.
In this heaviest season, the owner of a large lavender farm in Banstead, UK, held a huge celebration for the heaviest of lavenders. Almost everywhere you could see is purple and everything you could smell is the sweet fragrance of lavenders. Everywhere you touch could leave the unforgettable and dreaming fragrance on your hands. Even the rubber wristbands they wear could get the fragrance of lavenders. I think this smell would not disappear quickly, so as they have touched hundreds of lavenders, the smell might last several weeks or even months. I hope that smell could last for a year and when I miss that purple paradise, I could smell the wristbands or just wear it.
A boring day could be changed by that sweet wristband which could call the bell of the Lavender Festival in my head. The memory of the huge lavender field which stretches as far as eye can see would be carried on the wristband. With the smell it lets out, the sky would be bluer than ever before, the tree would be nicer and even the birds would be cuter. The wind would blow up your hem, the fragrance of lavenders then surround you. It seems like your clothes would get that sweet smell and then turn into purple. I wish this fragrance would last till next Lavender Festival or I would miss them too much.