FLOWER SEEDS

Growing Lavender

This is what it looks like as its being died right after it was cut.

Information on Lavender

A flat sachet tucked into your pillow can help you sleep. Tuck one between the sheets in the linen closets or in the clothes drawer. Keep one in the car. Lavender can hold its smell for years.

In the language of flowers- Lavender represents ardent attachment, devotion, success, and luck.

Lavenders are widely grown in gardens. The fragrant purple flowers and flower buds are used in potpourris. Dried and sealed in pouches, they are placed among stored items of clothing to give a fresh fragrance and as a deterrent to moths. It also repeals fleas! It can also be used as an antiseptic and for aromatherapy.

About the Lavender plant

The Laveners Lavandula are a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family. Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean region south to tropical Africa and to the south east regions of India. The genus includes annuals, herbaceous plants, subsrubs, and small shrubs. Because the cutivated forms are planted in gardens world wide, they are accasionally found growing wild, as garden escapes,well beyond their natural range.

Medicinal Uses

An infusion of Lavender is claimed to smooth and heal insect bites. Bunches of Lavender also said to ward off insects. If applied to the temples, Lavender OIL is said to help headaches..Lavender is frequently used as an aid to sleep and relaxation.

History

During the Roman Times, flowers were sold for 100 denarii per pound-which was ablout the same as a month's wages for a farm labourer, or fifty haircuts from the local barber.

Lavender was commonly used in Roman baths to scent the water, and it was thought to restore the skin. Its late Latin name Lavandarius, from lavanda (things to be washed) from the verb lavare (to was). When the Roman Empire conquered southern Britain, the Romans introduced Lavender.

During the height of the Plaque, glove makers at Grasse would scent their leathers with Lavender Oil, and this was claimed to ward off the Plaque. This story could have some validity as the Plaque was transmitted by fleas which Lavender is known to repeal!

A Great Tip to Use with your Bag of Lavender

A Quick Bath Bag-

Use old handerchief or piece of thin cotten(6x8) lay bag of Lavender or dump Lavender into cloth (your option), gather the corners together and secure the bundle with piece of 12in ribbon, tie it in a knot. Tie the very ends of the ribbon together in a bow of knot to form a loop by which to hang the bag. Slip this over bath tub faucet positioned so the water will run through it as the tub fills. It may be used for several baths. The Lavender should then be replaced.