Lavender
We are a lavender farm so of course we love to talk about our beautiful lavender plants and the amazing products we make with them.
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The Best Guide to Choosing the Right Lavender Varieties
There are so many lavender varieties that it can be a little bit overwhelming to navigate. We are here to help you understand which lavenders to choose for your own garden. Lavender Varieties Let’s start with a really quick basic biology lesson. Lavender is part of the lamiaceae (Lay-mi-a-see-aye) family it’s genus is lavandula and there are 47 know species of the lavandula genus. Okey dokey, so what does that mean? It means that all lavenders are part of the mint family and that there are 47 types of lavender to choose from. And they are all different. Lavindin There are also hybrids of each lavender called lavindins or lavender…
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The Best Edible Lavender Honey Teaspoon Recipe
This Lavender honey teaspoon recipe is tasty and beautiful. The easy thing about them is that you don't have to use a mould if you don't have one.
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How to Host The Best Garden Tea Party
What You’ll Need You don’t need to do anything fancy to have a fun tea party in your own garden. My daughter regularly asks for a tea party and sometimes our tea consists of toast and milk. I mean if you’re doing this on a regular basis with a child then you can’t be baking British tea scones every other day. Although they are so easy to make you probably could do them every other day if you wanted. What you do need is some good recipes, sweet and savory, and some cute teacups. There are even cute paper tea cups that are good to use with little fingers. Garden…
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Top Four Essential Oil Distillers
I am in search of the best home-use essential oil distiller. Now that may sound like an unnecessary expense in this day and age; why distil your own herbs when you can buy essential oils everywhere? But here are my reasonings: 1. If I make it myself then I know what’s in it, 2. I love a new project, 3. I grow my plants so that I can use them and 4.have you seen the prices of some EOs? They are getting ridiculous. Now, I know that buying a distiller can be pricey. But there are some out there that cost less than a 15ml bottle of Essential Oil and…
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Overwintering Your Lavender Plants
Lavender in the Winter Here in Utah our winters can be cold and dry. And most plants hate that combination but there are some plants that need that hibernation time and some that at least tolerate it. Some Lavender do very well over wintering as long as their roots can stay above -20 degrees Fahrenheit (-29 C) and they get a little water. This year was a very dry winter for our area but our lavender pulled through and is doing fine. Not all Lavender varieties are cold hardy so make sure to choose one that does well in your zone. Believe it or not this bed has 10 healthy little…
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Gardening In Terrible Soil and How to Fix It
I love gardening! It’s something so straight forward and healthy. Growing your own produce allows you to know what exactly goes into the food that you eat. Not to mention the hours of lifting, bending, stretching… I feel like I’ve been on every machine in a gym after a morning gardening. If you are new to gardening start by checking out our 7 Tips to Start a Garden Post. Soil Types One thing I’ve learned to be able to get the best and healthiest plants is to know what kind of soil you have. A simple soil testing kit can help determine what’s going on in your dirt. You can…
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5 Easy Steps to Propagate Your Own Lavender
Propagation in the plant world is the breeding of specimens of a plant by natural processes from the parent stock. Or in other words taking a piece of stem from the parent plant and getting it to make roots to start another plant
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What Are Essential Oils and Do They Really Work
My love affair with Lavender began shortly after having my first baby. Like so many women I went through a severe hormone change that resulted in a serious case of postpartum anxiety/depression. Being first time parents neither my husband nor I knew what was wrong with me, we didn’t make the connection between the sleeplessness, anxiety and Postpartum. My anxiety was so bad that I was unable to sleep and when I did it wasn’t very restful. I was at my wits end, I felt like there was nothing I could do. I didn’t want to take anything because I was breastfeeding and I didn’t want to pass on harmful…
