Comment on Discussion Thread ☕🐈🤘 Saturday 24th May 2025
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 day ago
TIL that the word lavender is derived from the same root word that *launder/laundry" does: Proto-Indo European *leue - to wash.
Lavender was used to make laundry smell nice.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Legit. My granny would pin her smalls out on the lavender bushes to dry, not the line. And made lavender bags every year to deter moths.
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Ooooo I like that!! I need a lavender bush, it’s my favourite smell! But my balcony gets almost no direct sunlight, so I don’t think it would survive lol!
But if/when I move, I’ll be pinning my smalls all over that lavender haha
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 day ago
As essential as a lemon tree imo
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 day ago
So many different kinds too, I think if I get my own garden I’ll plant a special lavender garden of all the different kinds with a little blue ageratum border. There are so many lovely colours and shapes. www.gardenmandy.com/types-of-lavender-plants/
Eagle@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I got a double lavender plant earlier this year. It hasn’t flowered since I planted it, but its so pretty. I also have established English and French lavenders that I harvest for little smelly wardrobe bags.