The angustifolia lavenders are in flower! It took me years and years to find a strain of this classic English variety that would grow at Glenmore. For me, they represent the earliest imaginings of how we might shape the garden here (when it was nothing more than a collection of ramshackle buildings).
But I would lose them year after year – I’d buy them in the Southern HIghlands, in Yass, in country Victoria and by mail order. Then finally I found one that lasted! This image replicates the illustrated front cover of a book about lavenders that I bought nearly 25 years ago – and seemed to encapsulate my dreams at the time…(white cabbage moth & all – of course, now I know better!).
The best specimen of all is the one at the laundry door, where a flower spike gets jammed in the fly screen door each time it slams shut, and sends great wafts of lavender scent into the laundry – exactly as it should….