Lavandula angustifolia or English Lavender is a dense and bushy low shrub with narrow grey leaves above which slender stems hold the purple to blue fragrant flower heads aloft. There are now many cultivars their dense colour spikes vary from purple to pinks and mauves and whites brighten up the garden in late spring and summer.
It makes a great little hedge or pathway feature and the flower heads can be picked off and dried for pot pourri or the oils extracted for aromatherapy purposes.
Although named English Lavender it comes from much further south on the Mediterranean coast.