Lavender 

Cultivation:
Plant in a sunny well-drained position. Cut bushes back hard after flowering to encourage further flowering. Shrub, 1.5m in height. Narrow, downy, blue-grey leaves with lavender coloured flowers on elongated stems.

Culinary uses:
Flavour apple jelly, Elizabethan cake icing and shortbread cookies with lavender flowers.

Medicinal uses:
A lavender pillow is sleep-inducing. It is said that a sprig of lavender worn under ones hat will prevent or cure a head ache.

Other uses:
Use a fresh sprig in your bath for relaxation or dry the leaves and flowers for use in a potpourri for 
its anti-moth properties. Decorate gifts with dried or fresh flowers.
