Otto Quast Spanish Lavender – 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Perennial Herb

Flower Color:  Mauve-Lilac, Purple

Flower Size: Small flowers packed on spikes

Flowering Period:  Early to Mid-Summer

Flower Type:  Spikes

Fragrant Flowers:  Yes

Foliage Color:  Silvery-Green

Fragrant Foliage:  Yes!

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Butterflies, Visual Attention, Sensory Appeal

Resistances:  Deer, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

We can’t speak for folks in other areas, but in our north central Georgia gardens, the Otto Quast Spanish Lavender has outperformed all other types and varieties. It stands up to the hot and humid summers as far south as USDA Zone 9b. Beginning in late spring to early summer and continuing through mid to late late summer, loads of flower spikes with mauve-lilac petals top the attractive, silvery-green foliage mounds. The flowers are excellent for cutting and attractive to butterflies, but deer and rabbits won’t touch the plant. Otto Quast does not die back in the winter in our gardens and has demonstrated excellent insect and disease resistance. That said, Lavender plants don’t like wet feet so make sure to choose a well-drained site!

Growing 18 to 24 inches tall and 24 to 36 inches wide, Otto Quast Lavender is ideal for use as an accent, in groupings or mass plantings, or as a low hedge or border in landscape and perennial borders and herb gardens. It has also done well for us in container gardens, which can be overwintered indoors above Zone 7a. A fine selection for herb gardens, perennial gardens, purple theme gardens, cottage gardens, and rock and fragrance gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  18 to 24 inches apart for mass plantings or solid borders; 4 feet apart for space between plants

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Lavender variety is not winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Lavender is easy to grow in a moist to somewhat dry well-drained soil of average to low fertility and plenty of sun. Constantly soggy soil or standing water is problematic. If desired, the plant can be cut back by one-third its height after flowering to maintain a fuller plant. For example, if your plant is 30 inches tall you can cut it back to 20 inches tall. 

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