Lavender Moisturizing Soap
Mini Gardener's Collection
Did you know there are over 400 varieties of lavender?
Independent of its many other properties and uses, lavender has long held a place of honor in the world of decorative crafts. As a dry flower, lavender brings two key attributes as a favored raw material to crafters – longevity and durability of form and color. Here are just a few of the more popular ……
Lavender Wreath-making is probably the most common craft employing lavender, both having been around for centuries. Providing the right lavender cultivar is used, the great durability of lavender makes it a particularly suitable dried flower for wreaths, especially given the tendency for many wreaths to find an exterior home (albeit under cover, such as front doors and the like). We elect to use L. x intermedia ‘Grosso” for our wreaths for exactly this reason, given its property of minimal bud shedding over the years. As importantly, it also retains its deep purple color well — so long as it is dried in a relatively dark environment such that provided by our dedicated large Drying Barn at the farm.
Lavender Wand-making is the perennial favorite craft among visitors to our Annual Lavender Festival. With the lavender flower stalks freshly cut – a prerequisite for successful wand-making – there are few other crafts from which so much beauty and utility can be created by so many with so little in the way of materials.
Lavender “Tussie-Mussies” are a favorite Victorian-era rendition of centuries-old miniature lavender bouquets or boutonniéres, complete with doilies or lace! Once again, see the Products section. Many variations on this theme have appeared over the years according to the imagination of the crafter.
Lavender Buds are deployed in a wide range of “packagings”, ranging from simple sachets to elaborate “pockets” attached to or bordering linens such as pillowcases, sheets, throws, cushions, lockets, etc. They are also commonly offered in loose decorative bowls alone or in combination with
other crushed dry flowers as Potpourri.
Felted Soap – another perennial crafting favorite, used not only for its originally intended purpose but also employed by quilters and seamstresses as attractive pincushions.
And whatever else the crafting imagination conjures up ….
We are committed, through our vertically integrated model of sustainable agriculture, to preserving open-space farmland on our beautiful island from further development, protecting it from pollution, and providing a destination of natural beauty for all to enjoy “up close and personal”.
We are committed to using only our own organically grown and certified lavender flowers in all our products. Following the same ethos, we also distill all our essential oil ourselves, in our own on-site distillery, and from our own flowers, thereby retaining intimate knowledge and control over all that goes into our products.
We are committed to handcrafting our products ourselves on-site. This not only helps assure their quality, but also, by tapping into the abundance of local artisan creativity, allows us to readily sustain our long-standing reputation for bringing elegantly designed and effective lavender products to a discerning public.
Demonstration Garden
Harvesting our Organic Lavender
Pelindaba Lavender Friday Harbor
