An RHS Chelsea Flower Show ' Plant of the Year' finalist 2013, boasting striking silver-grey foliage with creamy yellow margins, topped with fragrant lilac blooms. Flowers August-September. Height 50cm (20). Supplied in a 9cm pot. Adrian Bloom says... With garden plants, as with so much else, new is not always better, & that certainly applies to Lavenders, where new varieties seem to be introduced every year. Hidcote, named after the famous garden in Gloucestershire, has been around for fifty years or more, & is tough & hardy, with a dense compact habit, grey-green leaves & masses of erect spikes profusely covered with deep violet-blue flowers, filling the air with fragrance & always attractive to bees.