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On a sunny winter afternoon, pretty French Lavender in bloom at our garden. They are used as culinary herbs and commercially for extraction of essential oils

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Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to the Old World and is found from Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia to southeast India. Many species are cultivated extensively in temperate climates as ornamental plants for garden and landscape use, for use as culinary herbs, and also commercially for the extraction of essential oils. The most widely cultivated species is often referred to as lavender, and there is a colour named for the shade of the flowers of this species. 3425

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Taken on July 31, 2016