spike lavender

Oil of spike lavender has also occasionally been used as a solvent in oil painting, mainly before the use of distilled turpentine became common.

Lavender is also known as Lavandula angustifolia, aspic, lavandin, spike lavender, and true lavender.

She believed that the garden varieties were hybrids between true lavender L. angustifolia and spike lavender (L. latifolia).

THIS WEEK Where to Find The Purple Spikes Lavender is readily available in the spring from most garden centers and nurseries.

Originally it used beeswax, oil of spike lavender, spirits of turpentine, elemi resin and copal varnish, and was complex both in preparing the wall surface and applying the paint.

Lavandula latifolia, known as Spike lavender or Portuguese lavender, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to the western Mediterranean region, from central Portugal to northern Italy (Liguria) through Spain and southern France.