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French lavender grown by shiny
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French Lavender planting

grown by shiny in South garden · Wellington, New zealand

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PGKW Done

Harvest months

Spring
September
October
November
Summer
December, usually harvesting
January, usually harvesting
February
Autumn
March, usually harvesting
April
May
Winter
June
July
August

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

almost 10 years ago 2016-11-27

Progress

Done 3607 days

Quantity

3 advanced plants

Grown in

shade

Rating

3 of 5

Short code

PGKW for plant markers and labels

Grown from

Advanced plant

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Wellington, New zealand New

Daily high and low
Too cold for French lavender so farFrom Oct 13 to Oct 13, 133 of 366 days had a high inside the best range of 15–24°C. The highs were below the best range on 233 days. The weather was too cold on 96 days (lows below 7°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -1 °CGrows at 7–28°Grows best 15–24°
Daily rainfall
Rain
1,103 mm
Hottest day
21.1°C
Coldest night
1.1°C
Soil temperature
12.4°C
Days in its best range
133 of 366
Days
366

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

Photos

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Frost may have reached this French lavender planting

3 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 1.1 °C.

This French lavender planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
1.1 °C
0.9 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
120 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 1 Oct
Usual last frost
29 Aug
has come as late as 1 Oct

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

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French Lavender

Lavandula stoechas

a variety of Lavender

  • 4 plantings
  • A perennial
  • Usually grown in sun