Sensational Lavender

Lavandula x intermedia ‘Tesseract’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Perennial Herb

Height at Maturity: 24-30″

Width at Maturity: 30-36”
Spacing: 18-24″ for mass plantings or solid borders; 5′ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Mounding

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Blue-Purple

Flower Size: Large for a Lavender

Flowering Period: Summer

Flower Type: Single, packed on spikes

Fragrant Flowers: Yes

Foliage Color: Silvery-Gray

Fragrant Foliage: Yes!

Berries: No

Berry Color: No

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Damp to moist But Well Drained, drought tolerant when established

Soil pH: 6.7 – 7.5 (Neutral to Slightly Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Butterflies, Visual Attention, Sensory Appeal

Resistances: Deer, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

Description

A next generation hybrid, from mid summer to early fall Sensational Lavender features abundant spikes of much larger and thicker flowers on sturdier stems that are clothed in silver-grey foliage, which has a sweet lavender floral aroma with low camphor, making it a superb choice for culinary uses, drying, and aromatherapy. Unlike many lavenders, this one grows very dense and has shown exceptional heat and humidity tolerance as far south as USDA Zone 9b. Excellent for pots, landscape borders and garden beds.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 18 inches tall with blooms to 24 inches and 24 to 30 inches wide, Sensational Lavender is ideal for use as an accent, in groupings or mass plantings, or as a low hedge in landscape and perennial borders and herb gardens. Mass plantings are truly breathtaking. It has also done well for us in container gardens, which can be overwintered indoors above Zone 5a. A fine selection for herb gardens, perennial gardens, purple theme gardens, cottage gardens, and rock and fragrance gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 18 to 24 inches apart for mass plantings or solid borders; 5 feet apart for space between plants

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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Lavender variety is not winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Lavender is easy to grow in a moist to somewhat dry well-drained soil of average to low fertility and plenty of sun. Constantly soggy soil or standing water is problematic. If desired, the plant can be cut back by one-third its height after flowering to maintain a fuller plant. For example, if your plant is 30 inches tall you can cut it back to 20 inches tall.

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, prune, fertilize and water Lavender plants.

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