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The reason I asked whether Lavender could be grown in New Mexico was.......I currently live where it cannot be grown successfully....in hot, wet, humid south Florida. I grew it up in Indiana and miss growing it in my garden. Just wondering.....I want to move out of the southeast someday and may visit NM sometime this year.
You're coming to the right place. You've got me interested in it. Does anybody know -- do rabbits eat it? Gophers?
Back to lavender.....the really neat thing about it (there are several species and cultivars) is that: the foliage is fragrant, the flowers are fragrant, and you can dry the flowers and keep them indoors for their fragrance. In case you were wondering...I like fragrant plants!
Rabbits normally do not go after lavender, but they have been known to use small parts of the plant for nesting burrows, which does not cause too much damage overall. But i say "normally" do not go after the lavender, but one very dry year i had rabbits eat a few young lavender plants from my garden. Lavender has very relaxing medicinal properties to it, and this was proved the day the rabbits ate my lavender, as my housecat proceeded to kill the rabbit from the garden. I can only assume that the rabbit was a bit too relaxed and did not see the fat cat coming!
Yes, lavender grows good even in Cruces, they used to have the NMSU park in Mesilla, I'm sure it's all changed, but they had big lavender plants there the size of big shrubs, it did so good, you just need the good river water to irrigate it is all.
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You've got me interested in it. Does anybody know -- do rabbits eat it? Gophers?
Rabbits on herbs
I've had trouble with it here
