Replacing box hedge with lavender?

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Our box hedge has died (moth damage) and we are thinking of having lavender instead. The box hedge was quite small (about 50cm high) and it surrounds a small front garden that is slightly elevated from the ground. Any tips on which version of lavender? Or other ideas to use for the hedging?

This is what our 'front garden' looks like (not our house, but same kind of system, except it has bod hedge all around it, then roses and rosemary etc towards the back.

English lavender would do well, as long as you don't mind it looking quite pitiful in the winter months. As the years go on it gets very woody, so would need replaced sooner than an evergreen hedge.

I have lornicera nitida instead of box after mine got eaten by box moth. Needs a bit more trimming but otherwise very similar

As well as lonicera, other ones to look at would be ilex crenata, and euonymus. Ilex crenata looks like box, and euonymus comes in different varietated colours so any of those three would be nice as a short hedge.

People along the road from me have a rosemary hedge, I'm quite envious. You probably need to select the variety carefully.

English Lavender is hardier than French Lavender, so I tend to stick to those. We're you thinking of a quintessential deep purple lavender? If so 'Hidcote' might be a good variety, it doesn't get too high and has won the RHS AGM. Looking at the front of your house a pale pink might be really pretty, there's a nice variety called 'Rosea' that would look good.

I would second @LisaJool though, the fact lavender gets so woody means it needs to be replaced at frequent-ish intervals, so it is higher maintenance than perhaps you might think; and it looks really sorry for itself in the winter!

I've been looking to replant a hedge at the front of my garden, so I've been doing a fair bit of research on this of late! If my soil wasn't so chalky I'd grow a hedge with this amazing Rhododendron which is being touted as a replacement to box hedging, is evergreen, and flowers in late spring/early summer
https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants//rhododendron-bloombux-microhirs3-pbr/classid.2000021014/
This plant also looks quite interesting too: https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants//teucrium--lucidrys/classid.2000024757/
it looks quite 'cottage garden' in these pictures but apparently can be clipped back quite hard to look more like a formal hedge, and doesn't grow too high so would be less work to maintain!