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!
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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?

[@amiepetracek7290]

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-pf2zc]

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.

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Stay warm 😀

[@ionicamermaid1141]

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!

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Thanks - yes! And I remember my gran always had some in her ‘smalls’ drawer

[@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. 🐝

[@Artzenflowers]

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

[@ryanlove8242]

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. 😊

[@rayandmarythomas4719]

Made lavender scones with my granddaughter! We love them!

[@MaxCooperWCIDP]

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

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Oh thank you!

[@ebonywaru160]

Love our lavender looking forward to implementing these suggestions

[@themagicalherbvegetablegar9077]

Love lavender, so intense and beautiful.

[@tearsmochau7019]

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

[@jeanettemosey1]

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

[@loveearthspirit829]

Someone told me not to water lavender, but please do...many of mine died. I honour lavender and next time I will listen to her 🙏🏼

[@MariaDominguez-bl1ef]

Maybe they just meant don’t over water it. It needs good drainage.

[@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. 😉

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Oh!

[@TrueFreedomPermaculture]

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

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Thanks - gardening this way is such a peaceful way of being in the world

[@lavgarden]

I am surprised that the leave is edible, thank you

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

Yes, but you only need a little because the flavour is so strong

[@lavgarden]

@@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife ok, will try it this coming season

[@Myrtuscommunis]

Very interesting! 👍 🙂

[@Weeks25]

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

[@JoeyDediashvili]

Great!

[@Fl4dd3rm0uz]

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!

[@inaina9027]

You are wonderfull, i love your videos! Im starting the lavender just now from seeds, looks like they are two different types of it..... 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.

[@catey62]

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.

[@fCLEF007]

got some anti bac gel that's got lavender in it

[@silverravensblackgarden]

💜💜💜

[@markanddonnaranfurly3040]

Thank you for another great clip, I'm enjoying your channel! Question : Is it true that if you plant lavender around more ''vulnerable'' crops, it deters rodents? All my produce (SE QLD) is being devoured by rats and mice as they ripen 😞

[@ruthhoole5720]

I have a fairy wing lavender.. and wasn’t sure if I could make tea out of it or smoke it.. I normally use it in my spells or smudging the house.. so is it okay to smoke and drink in portions..

[@profs71]

I am making bonsai, if that is counted as a different usage. ;-)

[@londongirl6711]

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?

[@newvideo7886]

Excellent and beautiful channel like you and be in touch 243

[@drrahilakurdi5943]

❤💚❤

[@dahjr01hamlin59]

How to start from seed? I tried an entire pack before and not 1 single seed grew. I tried a few different methods with no results

[@marilyncharles8367]

How can i buy some lavender do you sell?

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

I’m not a seller (or much of a buyer) of plants. I usually get my plants from cuttings from friends

[@jcdmobil352]

I learned something interesting about lavender this year: I tried to duplicate my lovely lavender bush but it wouldn't sprout, so I started doing research what could have gone wrong, and do you know what I found out? Apparently, my lavender is a so called "lavandin" (lavandula x intermedia), a hybrid of the official lavender (l. angustifolia) and the broadleaved lavender (l. Latifolia), and this hybrid is a) sterile and b) not calming but invigorating in its effect! This explains why its blossoms next to my pillow have never helped me sleep!

[@wildlifegardenssydney7492]

Great detective work!

[@wasilaahmad4056]

🤔

[@mcrosland5886]

A lot of lavender seed is labelled 'not for food'. Is that wrong, or is it for strains with nasty chemicals added?

[@MoragGambleOurPermacultureLife]

probably :-(

[@sarahkinsella6588]

I didn't know all lavender was edible.... Here was me buying a special advertised edible one! I use mine for drying out and then smoking with tobacco

[@JWMcLay]

There may be some cultivars of lavender that are more palatable than others. There's certainly a variety of strengths in aroma I've noticed among lavender varieties

[@cmoore6131]

@@JWMcLay Yes, generally Lavendula Angustifolia is used for culinary purposes. Other varieties can have a more soapy or sharp flavor

[@JWMcLay]

@@cmoore6131 thank you for that info, I've just started doing a PDC and learning a lot. I'm told lavender can also be effective against white cabbage moth

[@Child-of-God-Jaoel-Greatangel]

do you have to dry the lavender before you can make a tea with it?