06/14/2026
In an effort to manage my garden organically and to support a beneficial ecosystem of bugs, I grow several botanical plants, lavender being one of them!! After the lavender has bloomed for a few weeks and has attracted the beneficial insects (this year we relied very heavily on the lacewings and margined leathering beetles to control the thrips), I give them a good pruning and dry them to use in our soaps and perfume oils 😍