Capture the smell of lovely English lavender now
Now is the time to harvest the lavender that is probably growing in your garden. If not your garden then someone else’s close by! Let’s make a traditional, English lavender bag together.
Granddaughter Evie came to stay and so she was put to work with the scissors in the garden. A good bunch of lavender spikes later makes a lovely display as they dry out for a couple of days – without water.
Ready to create an English lavender bag
OK so now we have our lavender spikes. Here’s what else we needed:
- A meter of netting (cost £1.50 from the local market)
- A meter of ribbon (cost .75p from the local market)
- Scissors
- And of course… lavender spikes
And here’s what we did with the lavender
- After leaving the lavender spikes for a couple of days to dry out pull off the flowers into a pile onto some paper
- Cut x2 9”/23cm squares of net, lay one on top of the other for double thickness
- With the net partially placed under the paper, push a quantity of lavender onto the net as shown
- Draw up the corners and sides of the net without letting the lavender escape
- My able assistant then tied a length of ribbon around the enclosed lavender – very tightly. Learning to tie a knot in the process.
A souvenir of a lovely summer
We made enough lavender bags to give to Mummy to make her drawers smell nice and even one for Daddy for the car. The smell in the kitchen was just divine. When we learned that the smell is ‘soporific’ and relaxing grandson Jack said that he would like one for his bedroom ‘Because sometimes it’s just too hard to get to sleep!’