Your lavender looks wonderful, I love the contrast between the green and purple. It's one plant that you can go totally overboard with cutting back and it likes it and puts out more.
I personally like lavender in small doses. I use lavender fragrance oils in some of the things I make and the smell can be quite overpowering, but boy do I sleep well on those nights.
My niece asked me a few days ago if I still put real lavender in my baths and I replied "no my angel, I don't have a lavender bush anymore" and she said "that's okay, I'll get you one". I thought it was such a sweet gesture. Giving and recieving lavender will never get old, so you did a good thing and I'm glad your girl likes it.
Enjoy your garden, it's a wondrous thing to experience.
It's legit huh? I like the smell but yeah it can be overpowering so I'm careful to handle with care, like I do when I handle explosives and donuts.
I've never had lavender in a bath, but I had lavender brownies once, and they were legit! (I'm not joking, I wrote a post about it.)
🤣 like handling explosives and donuts. You're so fun.
Lavender in a bath is amazing, you sleep so well afterwards. You had lavender in brownies? That's awesome. I haven't had lavender in anything edible but I have eaten flowers that were baked into biscuits once when I went to a talk on edible flowers. They were good biscuits, I could have eaten a whole heap of them, so can imagine lavender brownies to be just as good.
Yep, lavender brownies, I'll find the post for you. Also, lavender cordial...So bloody good!
Ooh now that I wouldn't mind trying. Lavender cordial sounds amazingly good.
It tasted like lavender, unsurprisingly. 😊