Sentence examples for lavender from inspiring English sources

Now locals, whose livelihoods depend on the plants, are appealing for funds to save the lavender that has been produced in the region since the Middle Ages.

There are around 30 types of lavender, producing flowers of varying colours including purple, pink and white.

+33 4 6876 0903, avillelongue.free.fr First, there is eternal Provence, the hillsides scented with wild herbs: rosemary, thyme, sage, lavender.

Its standout dish is honey lavender duck with apple and rutabaga (swedes).

France has 1,700 lavender producers working 16,000 hectares of lavandin, along with another 4,000 hectares of strictly controlled "pure" lavender.

Scientists are now looking for lavender varieties resistant to the micro-bacterium.

"Quite apart from the loss of income and jobs in producing lavender, there is also the tourist industry.

Deep below the once purple but now wintering and dormant fields of Provençal lavender, something is rotten.

Owner Sofia also offers 1½-hour walks along a valley trail lined with rock-rose, lavender and eucalyptus – ideal for children.

The flowers are loved by bees in the same way as lavender Biodiversity is important partly because a monoculture can harbour pests and disease.

The Mission branch has the added bonus of its "creamery" a few doors down: all ice-creams made in small batches, with slurpable flavours such as malted vanilla with peanut brittle, Sonoma honey and lavender, and brown sugar with ginger caramel swirl.