Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In Provence, summer is the privileged season for lavender honey production, and hives are set up on an area limited in the North by the line Montélimar/Digne, and in the South by the Mont Ventoux, the plateau d'Albion , the mountain of Lure, the Vaucluse Mountains, and the Luberon.
The Provençal market also offers local specialities such as essential oils of lavender from Haute-Provence, cut and dried flowers, and all kinds of soap products. Finally, it is also the chance to discover truffles, lavender honey, cordials, jams, olives, designation of origin oils and fine wines from the Rhone Valley and Provence .
At the top of the spike are a number of much larger, sterile bracts (no flowers between them), 10–50 mm long and bright lavender purple (rarely white). It blooms in spring and early summer, from the month of March in its native habitat, depending on the climate in which it grows. [8]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of perennial flowering plants in the mints family, Lamiaceae. [1] It is native to the Old World, primarily found across the drier, warmer regions of mainland Eurasia, with an affinity for maritime breezes.
Le Lavandou (pronounced [lə lavɑ̃du]; Occitan: Lo Lavandor) is a seaside commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France.Le Lavandou derives its name either from the flower lavender (lavanda in Provençal) that is prevalent in the area, [3] or more prosaically from the local form of the Occitan name for lavoir, lavandor (for lavador, a public ...
French lavender may refer to at least two species of plants in the genus Lavandula: Lavandula dentata (French or fringed lavender)
Riez is located in a district of fields of commercially grown lavender, which support a honey-making industry. Truffles are found: there is a weekly truffle market on Wednesdays from late November through March.