The Hidden Benefits of Growing Lavender

Did you know lavender is edible - in salads, dressings, baked goods, drinks? Have you ever made your own lavender cleaners, hair rinses or relaxing lavender-infused bath, laundry airer? Bees love it too!

Lavender is so very useful and its no surprise it is in most gardens. Learn more about many different ways you can used it here in this short clip with Morag Gamble.

We'd love to hear how you use lavender too. Do you cook with it or use it in your home and garden?

[amiepetracek]

I use the dried flowers as an incense- really like the idea of making cleaning products with them too! Thanks Morag for the great idea:)

[NS-pfzc]

Seeing you in the height of warmth helps warm my chilly bones in the US! I have Lavender in the frig to stratify to grow this spring and make a hedge to use. Lavender is one of my favorite herbs. It is so soothing.

[ionicamermaid]

I love the idea of the cleaning product!
I personally love it in a bag under my pillow and a tiny bit in my rice pudding. Thanks for all the lovely content you are sharing!

[ArtforAlzheimersCare]

There is a local winery in my area that makes a rhubarb and lavender wine and it’s delicious! I like your idea of adding it to ice cream. I love my lavender plants and all of the pollinators they bring to my garden. 🐝

[ryanlove]

I like to make sage bundles to burn as incense. Sometimes i put lavender in them depending on my mood and intent. My teacher at Monterey Peninsula College taught me to take lots of cuttings and put them into terracotta pots halfway filled (or less. Shallow is good.) with sand and watered in occasionally and put in indirect light to shade. They have to spread their roots looking for water. It works great! Thank you so much for your content Mrs. Gamble! You are an inspiration and i am grateful for your work and content. 😊

[rayandmarythomas]

Made lavender scones with my granddaughter! We love them!

[Artzenflowers]

Moralg, I do a honey & lavender sourdough boule. I use lavender blossom tea as the liquid in the bread recipe.

[MaxCooperWCIDP]

Your plant passion is so contagious, feeling inspired, off to the lavender! thanks 😊🌱

[ebonywaru]

Love our lavender looking forward to implementing these suggestions

[jeanettemosey]

Thank you, that's so interesting. So many ideas for using lavender. 🙂

[themagicalherbvegetablegar]

Love lavender, so intense and beautiful.

[MrsCrunchy]

Great video as usual, Morag! Your videos are so relaxing :)

[inaina]

You are wonderfull, i love your videos!
Im starting the lavender just now from seeds, looks like they are two different types of One is lavender vera and the other just lavender or it was french lavender?! Not sure, they coyld be the same.... Growing it for first time. I really want to fill my small city garden with that plant, probably im not gonna eat it, just for the looks and smell.

[Flddrmuz]

I dry the flowers when the lavender gets its annual hair cut and make sachets or just hang them upside down in the house. Mine is English... I think. I like the idea of lavender lemonade though!

[tearsmochau]

Lavender is my middle name. I so love this herb❤

[catey]

Have you got any videos showing how to use lavender as a tea all Morag? I'm trying to learn more about herbal teas, and as a lavender lover would like to see some examples of how you use it there.

[lavgarden]

I am surprised that the leave is edible, thank you

[Weeks]

I have the worst luck with lavender an I love it so much 😢

[londongirl]

I always see lavender as the purple flowers, but when I bought young lavender plants from my local nursery they grew into what I see in this video, the pale rosemary type plant, no flowers at all. I was awfully confused. So just to confirm this is OK to ingest?

[gardentours]

In my garden I grow many lavender bushes for the 🐝🐝🐝🐝on the balcony I have some plants as well but they never bloom because the sparrows 🐦🐦 pick the little twigs for building their nests. They know what's good. 😉