Lavender 'Super Blue' — Highly Fragrant, High-Density Compact English Lavender

The Master Grower's Overview

Engineered by nature to deliver an incredibly dense, high-impact floral display while maintaining a tight, disciplined form, Lavandula angustifolia 'Super Blue' (English Lavender) is the industry standard for compact, fragrant landscape design. At Greenwood Nursery, we cultivate our 'Super Blue' liners to optimize robust, fibrous root systems, ensuring these plants establish quickly and transition smoothly into your landscape. Reaching a mature height of 10 to 12 inches with a highly uniform, 12- to 18-inch mounding spread, this outstanding cultivar is specifically grown to solve common landscape challenges—including holding its bright color under intense summer heat, surviving cold winter temperatures down to USDA Zone 5, and flourishing in sandy, poor soils where other ornamental perennials fail.

Nursery-Grade Technical Attributes

• Intense Color Density: Features larger, more tightly packed violet-blue flower spikes on shorter, stronger stems, preventing the common "flopping" or splitting open seen in older, taller lavender varieties.

• Highly Aromatic Foliage & Bloom: Rich in natural essential oils, both the blossoms and the silver-green, needle-like foliage release a sweet, clean lavender fragrance when brushed, making it a premium choice for sensory gardens and high-traffic pathways.

• Premium Wildlife Attraction: Acts as a powerful pollinator magnet, drawing in a high volume of beneficial bees, butterflies, and other native pollinators to support your broader landscape ecosystem.

• Varmint & Browser Immunity: Naturally rich in aromatic compounds that make the entire plant highly unpalatable to deer and rabbits, keeping your borders pristine without the need for chemical repellents.

Cultivation & Planting Infrastructure

• Solar & Spatial Parameters: Performs with maximum efficiency and color saturation across USDA Hardiness Zones 5–9. Requires full, unobstructed sun (at least 6 hours daily) to maintain its tight, compact shape and maximize bloom production.

• Soil Matrix & Drainage: Absolutely requires sharply drained, neutral-to-alkaline soils, performing beautifully in poor, sandy, or gravelly conditions. High moisture retention or standing water is highly detrimental; planting on raised beds or slopes is highly recommended for heavier clay profiles.

• Professional Spacing Grid: For a seamless, continuous border or low hedge, install starter pots on strict 12-inch centers. For individual specimens, mass landscape drifts, or mixed perennial beds, space on 18-inch centers to allow maximum air circulation around each mound.

• Establishment Hydration Protocol: Water regularly during the first growing season to encourage deep root establishment. Once established, 'Super Blue' exhibits outstanding, self-sustaining drought tolerance and should only be watered during prolonged periods of extreme dry heat.

Ordering & Wholesale Packaging Logistics

• Available Formats: Shipped and delivered exclusively as premium, field-ready Pint-Size Square Containers with healthy foliage and strong root systems, optimized for rapid transplanting and zero-shock establishment.

• Nursery Shipping & Logistics: Graded and packed at our McMinnville, Tennessee nursery. Every shipment is prepared with custom-built protective packaging designed for live plant survival during transit, ensuring fresh, ready-to-plant arrival at your job site.

• Agricultural Delivery Notice: Shipments are coordinated around strict seasonal weather windows to protect live nursery stock. Pre-orders are secured to ship during our prime spring planting windows.

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