Buying Lavender advice please

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I want to buy around 15-20 decent sized Lavender plants, could anyone please advise me on where would be good to buy them for both value and quality? I'm very new to this, but trying to learn.

They're very very easy to grow from cuttings https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-take-lavender-cuttings/] if you wanted to buy a couple of plants & grow more?

Thank you @DoverWight that looks as if even I could manage that!

@DoverWight this looks great. Do you water them after you've put the bag on do you know? Thanks!

If you're happy to let them grow, this is a bargain www.gardenersworld.com/garden-offers/latest-deals/

Do you know what you want your lavender to do?

I have a hedge and was given strict instructions that it should be Lavendula Angustifolia Hidcote and no substitions.

It does make a lovely hedge.

Lavender also grows easily from seed, which is definitely the cheapest way to get lots of plants, of you can be patient!

Check out your local supermarket. They are regularly in stock at my local Morrisons and Lidl. As above, are you looking for French or English lavender?

B and q are good for multipacks.

Make sure you buy English and not French. French is beautiful but not as hardy

I got mine from https://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/lavender-plants. They really seem to know what they’re doing and have a replacement guarantee if the plants die as long as you plant them as directed. They replaced a few of mine with no quibbles.

Thank you all - I want to use it as a low border / hedge in two different areas, both are quite dry and sunny.

I note that I need to buy English, and will look for the Hidcote recommended by @AnnaMagnani - thanks again!

I don't know, I wouldn't have thought so. When I did mine I just snipped random bits off and stuck them in water and some rooted even though that's the wrong way to do it, I got about 10 plants. I second getting English, as most of mine have perished this wet winter even though they're in terrible dry soil which drains well. I'm replacing with cuttings from an English lavender once it gets a bit bigger.

I lost about 5 lavenders this year - however they are all over 15 years old so well past their life expectancy so I can't be too sad.

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I can't keep lavender alive for some reason 😢

Me neither! I used to have some Hidcoat Blue, the type with 'wings' and it was gorgeous.
It didn't seem to last long. I have no idea whether it is shorter-lived than some but since then we haven't been able to keep any lavender plants for long.

If you keep your eyes open, often later in the year many companies (I think Thompson and Morgan amongst others) offer 'free' plants where you just pay postage. They are 'plug' plants but will grow, in 2-3 years will be a good bushy edging to a border.
Concur with previous posts, definitely English.

Thompson and Morgan are doing one now www.thompson-morgan.com/tm_gwe594w

Another thing to consider... I find a happy lavendar scatters seed nearby freely and many take and become small plants. I dig up the seedlings in autumn, pot them up and overwinter them (though they are very hardy) and then plant out in the spring where I want them - that helps increase the stock for free and gives me a bit of a rotation so that not all the plants get too old and woody at the same time.

..and I also concur that an English lavendar is best (hardier). Hidcote is lovely.

I chose Lavandula Intermedia Grosso for a hedge. I wanted more height than Hidcote. Grosso is extremely tough and versatile. One of the keys to making your Lavender happy is ensuring the ground is free draining. I dug in lots of grit before planting.

I bought them from hedgexpress.co.uk/product/lavender-grosso-variable-sizes/

100%, I pull up lots of little seedings in early Autumn, careful not to damage the roots or stems, and plant them in compost mixed with grit. They then grow on in the greenhouse and I've been planting them out this week.

We have Grosso on chalky clay and it absolutely thrives. Over summer it basically vibrates with bees. I just cut it back in autumn.

I needed 20 when I started my garden so I bought misshapes from here: https://www.lavenderworld.co.uk/collections/hidcote-lavender-plants

Sounds like I have the same type of soil as you, but have never managed to grow lavender successfully!
Will check out Grosso.