LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA ‘MAILLETTE’ – FRESH & FLORAL The famous French cultivar, ‘Maillette’ in full flower, is an elegant open bushy plant up to 75cm round displaying, during summer, abundant lacy purple spikes 8 to 15 cm long. ESSENTIAL OIL ‘Maillette’ produces essential oil which reflects the effervescent floral refinement general to French lavender oil. This […]
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LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA ‘COOKIE’ – EFFERVESCENT Light violet in colour, the beautiful ‘Cookie’ cultivar owes its existence to a handful of seeds planted at Nanami Lavender Farm near Eugowra NSW in the 1990’s and a text book inspired assessment of the 80 plants to emerge by Bruce Townsend. This plant he named after his mother and […]
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LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA ‘BEE’ – RESONANT & HONEY SWEET L. angustifolia Bee has a semi-open bushy habit to 75 cm round when it bears a profusion of densely packed mauve flower spikes of between 8 and 15cm in length. Developed from seed by Larkman Nurseries (AUST), Bee has marked out a very special place for itself […]
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LAVENDER CULTIVAR PROFILE/ AVICE HILL LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA ‘AVICE HILL’ PBR – SWEET ESTER Fountains of violet flowers a shimmer in the summer sun describes well a field of Avice Hill at harvest time. Developed in New Zealand from L.a. Munstead seed, by herb grower Avice Hill, and later named and developed commercially by Virginia McNaughton. […]
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LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA ‘SPONNEE’ – SEED LAVENDER Our ‘Sponnee’ essential oil is the product of self seeded plants collected from between our rows of established lavender and planted out in dedicated patches. As with all seed derived plants no two are exactly alike, nevertheless each contains genetic material from the parent plants and in this way […]
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Growing out farm on firm foundations Read more After quality and yield testing our initial plantings of ten different cultivars, five Lavandula angustifolia cultivars were chosen as the foundation plants for our Snowy River Lavender’s commercial planting program. Two of these are Australian cultivars L.a. ‘Bee’ and L.a. ‘Cookie’, two are New Zealanders, L.a. […]
Read moreThe glistening perfection of two month old seedlings finding nurture in our purpose built seedbeds SEED PROPAGATION, RESPECTING NATURE’S DIVERSITY The propagation of lavender cultivars by way of vegetative cutting is predicated on the desire to standardise plants for an increasingly industrialised culture of essential oil production. Standardisation and commoditisation is a necessary reaction to […]
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Immortelle (Helichrysum angustifolium) is one of the most powerfully therapeutic and desirable essential oils in the world. We are still in the early stages of farming this plant and are yet to distil any significant quantities. In the nursery this plant strikes easily but is very sensitive to moisture and does best when planted out […]
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CULTIVAR’S REPRODUCE PLANT GENETICS A cultivar is a plant reproduced by way of vegetative cuttings. Significantly, plants propagated in this way replicate exactly the genetics of the parent plant, enabling a uniformly productive farm population. Today the farming of cultivars, both lavender and lavandin, dominate essential oil production worldwide. At Snowy River Lavender, a large […]
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‘The great wall’ – As distilling progresses the lavender straw wall grows. This straw is the central ingredient in the on-farm composting system and in this way lavender is returned to the farm’s fertility cycle. RECYCLED LAVENDER, COMPOST & WORMS Vermi (worm) Compost is central in the success of our propagation mix and therefore the […]
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