Is this area big enough to accommodate a lavendar hedge?

[LAGWAFIS]

The front garden is about 5m x 5m. It has a path curving diagonally across.

It the moment it's just grass. I'd originally planned a box hedge each side of the path. But a) it was working out pretty expensive and b) box smells of cat wee

So, will a lavendar 'hedge' work or will it reduce each triangle of lawn to an awkwardly small size?

I can't visualise

I've got hidcoat and munstead varieties, which I believe are small and compact?

They were a grouping bargain. 75 plants for £15. They've arrived and each is about a cm high. Teeny weeny lavenders. I think I'll need to pot them up and grown them a bit before planting them out. Does that round sensible?

Thanks

LavendEr

i don't know but i am deeply

The area is big enough but it will take a good few years before they're anything approaching hedge sized.

When I've had lavender plants that size it has taken 4 years to get decent sized plants and I have lost lots along the way - get too wet in heavy rain and rot, dry out in summer, wind damage etc. You may have more success!

It could look fabulous though eventually.

I'm trying to do a similar thing and grew my munstead lavender from seed sown last year. This year they are good sized plants waiting to be planted. I don't see why it won't work as long as they get sun.

Oooo exciting. It's south facing so nice and sunny.

Should I keep the babies in a greenhouse for a while. Will that make 'em grow?

And what about alternating them with aliums? Would that work to fill up the gaps until the lavenders are big enough to join up?

Yes definitely keep them potted and grow them on a bit. Not sure about Aliums.

I went to a lavender farm to buy some plants last year and was advised that Hidcote can get massive, can't remember what variety I got in the end, but it was interesting looking at all the different varieties in one place, and smelling them.

Alliums are better at the middle or back or a border, I think, as they're so tall. They don't really have much foliage so wouldn't really 'bulk out' a hedge and, although stunning, they're only interesting for - a few weeks of the year.

They're also pretty expensive compared to many other plants you could use.

The colours do look good with lavender though.

Aliums would fill in the gaps but they would also keep the gaps there. The lavender won't grow that well with competition.
You'd be best mulching between the plants with rotted bark chippings.

You need to pot up the plants - keep them in the greenhouse for a while - and grow them in their pots until next year, when you could plant them out in the spring.
For a lavender hedge plant them in two staggered rows with 30- 50 cm between each plant.

thank you, this is brilliant advice. operation Lavender nurturing begins here...

You could plant some annuals in the gaps, like nigella or cornflowers - so they'd look lovely, suppress other weeds but not be competition.

I think you'd have to mulch between the plants once the annuals had gone over though.

You'd have a kind of hedge of wildflowers for one year!

I have managed to grow a long hedge of lavender on a gravel strip along the house. I did it entirely with tiny, tiny self seeded plants from an old lavender border. It has taken two years to thicken but right now it looks green and thick and I thick it's going to be great this summer.
They seem to thrive on hardly any soil and dry south facing position.

The original hedge is another matter.......