Lavandula stoechas Madrid Purple - Spanish Lavender

Lavandula stoechas Madrid Purple is one of a series of compact Spanish Lavenders. Madrid Purple has purple flowers to go with pink bracts. Madrid Pink has pink flowers to go along with the pink bracts, Madrid Blue has blue flowers to go with white bracts. In all other regards the plants grow just like the other Lavandula stoechas cultivars. They are easy to grow, they stay low, they bloom for a long time from Spring into Summer. Lavandula stoechas Madrid Purple will bloom even longer if you have the inclination and patience to cut off all of the dead flower heads. Lavandula stoechas has low water needs and is great for the Drought tolerant garden. Lavenders are busy waystations for insects and are necter sources for a host of bees and butterflies. I often include Lavenders in the butterfly garden plans. The Gray Hairstreak, Fiery Skipper, Mournful Duskywing, Common Buckeye, White Checkered Skipper, Northern White Skipper, and California Dogface Butterflies will sip nectar. Spanish lavender will tolerate temperatures into the low teens and survive when temperatures dip below 10° F for a short time. The Spanish Lavenders are not the culinary variety. For your cooking use Lavandula intermedia Fred Boutin, Lavandula intermedia Grosso or Lavandula intermedia Provence.

Other plants from the Lavandula Genus featured on this site:
Lavandula allardii Meerlo
Lavandula angustifolia Hidcote * Hidcote English Lavender
Lavandula dentata
Lavandula dentata candicans
Lavandula Goodwin Creek Grey
Lavandula heterophylla
Lavandula intermedia Fred Boutin
Lavandula intermedia Grosso
Lavandula intermedia Provence
Lavandula multifida
Lavandula pinnata buchii
Lavandula stoechas Atlas
Lavandula stoechas Coco Blue White
Lavandula stoechas Javelin Forte White
Lavandula stoechas Otto Quast
Lavandula stoechas Silver Anouk