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Lavandula
× ginginsii
'Goodwin Creek Grey'
Image: Stirton, Charles - NBGW
Common name:
Goodwin Creek Lavender
Family:
Lamiaceae (Mint)
Distribution:
Gardd/Garden
Life form:
Evergreen shrub/sub-shrub • Llwyn bytholwyrdd
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
Lavandula (lav-AN-dew-lah): Latin; lavare (to wash).
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
x ginginsii: Named in honour of Baron Frederic Charles Jean Gingins de la Sarraz (1790-1863), who wrote an early monographic on Lavandula.
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
'Goodwin Creek Gray': Found in 1999 by Jim and Dotti Becker's of Goodwin Greek Gardens.
Dyfarniadau / Awards:
RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
Description:
It has silvery-grey, toothed-edged leaves, similar to dentata, but larger and of a whiter gray colour. The blooms are soft blue lavender in tight whorled spikes on short stems, appearing nearly year-round in mild climates.
Links:
Royal Horticultural Society
Locations
1:
GGMED07-Great Glasshouse Mediterranean/Tŷ Gwydr Mawr Canoldirol 07
(GGMED07)
• Accession: 2000-1703 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
Area
Individual