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From the lens Growing Lavender – Cooking With Lavender – Bathing With Lavender.

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  • KarenWrites May 31, 2012 @ 8:51 am | delete
    Love it! Just starting to grow lavender & planning to make lavender tea and bath products but found out some new stuff here. Lavender in pesto? Love pesto (and I'm growing basil too) so I'll have to try it!
  • SoundFinance May 27, 2012 @ 10:17 pm | delete
    I have had lavender in my garden in the past. Now we have an NZ native garden so my husband doesn't see lavender fitting in. Might grow it in a tub perhaps! I've never cooked with lavender
  • Fancigemstones May 27, 2012 @ 9:17 pm | delete
    I used to grow lavendar in New York but moved to Nevada. I am in the desert. I have minld winter and HOT summer. Any chance it will grow here. I would LOVE to do it again.
  • csbsews May 12, 2012 @ 3:07 pm | delete
    I love lavender, and grow my own. This is a great lens.. Thanks.
  • VickiSims May 10, 2012 @ 8:31 am | delete
    Lavender flowers are so lovely to look at and to have the fragrance besides makes them one of my favorites. Great recipes - I will have to give some of them a try.
  • klash5 Mar 31, 2012 @ 10:57 am | delete
    Excellent lens, I think the smell of lavender is so relaxing.
  • Chinajoy Mar 25, 2012 @ 11:58 pm | delete
    Yeah, I have been invited to see Lavender World near Guangzhou in Mainland China.
  • LilMonkey Mar 21, 2012 @ 10:28 pm | delete
    I planted a Lavendar plant last year and have yet figured out how to use it for myself. I know that lavendar is theraputic and now know a few things I can do with my fresh lavendar. Well done lens, I think it covers just about everything about lavendar.
  • Celticep Mar 21, 2012 @ 2:19 pm | delete
    What a lovely lens! I have two lavender bushes in my garden and I regularly use lavender for aromatherapy ... but I never knew I could COOK with it!! Thanks for sharing this information :)
  • checkyourvibe Sep 26, 2011 @ 8:04 am | delete
    for some reason have never been a big fan of lavender, but after reading this lens am going to order some and try some of these recipes!
  • ellagis Sep 10, 2011 @ 6:08 pm | delete
    I love lavender, and I knew some recipes, but it's the first time I hear about basil and lavender pesto... I'll surely try it!
  • kiwinana71 Sep 3, 2011 @ 4:13 pm | delete
    Nice lens, I love lavender. Thanks for sharing. Have a nice day.
  • Rewards4life Aug 5, 2011 @ 4:43 am | delete
    I love Lavender it's such a relaxing and soothing scent. I use it in the bath and have also made my own room spray with lavender and some other oils which is supposed to insight dreams, it also helps you get to sleep. The lavender tree picture at the start is amazing I've not seen one before. Very nice lens.
  • GreenfireWiseWoman Jul 24, 2011 @ 5:43 am | delete
    I love the scent of lavender. Very informative lens - thank you.
  • Tipi Jul 22, 2011 @ 7:57 pm | delete
    Beautiful and informative with surprises along he way. You have opened up the world of lavender here, I would never have guessed all the uses and cooking with it is a big surprise. Very nicely done!
  • bakerwoman Jul 22, 2011 @ 5:39 pm | delete
    The scent of lavender is so calming and soothing. I planted a whole bunch of lavender in my garden. Thanks for the recipes which I need to try out sometime.
  • KimGiancaterino Jul 7, 2011 @ 6:30 pm | delete
    Beautiful lens! I love to use lavender oil. My mom gets it from Nick Sciabica & Sons in Modesto, California. They've been making it since 1936. We grow some lavender in our garden and our next-door neighbor just planted a bunch too!
  • BarbRad Jul 7, 2011 @ 1:22 pm | delete
    Our local lavender festival is this weekend, and I'm hoping to have time to drop by. I spent the whole day there last year. I grow lavender, but rarely use it except to just look lovely in the herb garden. I should use it, if only to tuck some under my pillow.
  • puerdycat Jun 10, 2011 @ 8:34 am | delete
    My house is scented with lavender! I posted a link to your lens on Amplify.com.
  • KathrynDarden Jun 1, 2011 @ 8:57 pm | delete
    Thanks for all the info on lavender. I always have some growing. One plant lived for more than 10 years, but sadly I lost it last year and had to start a new one this year. Now I know of even more ways to use it!
  • ElizabethJeanAllen May 11, 2011 @ 5:48 pm | delete
    I love the smell of lavender. I use it in my bath but I never thought to use it for cleaning
  • marciag May 11, 2011 @ 3:03 pm | delete
    I love lavender! I use it in my baths. What I do is get a good spoon of dried lavender (have all sorts of dried herbs at home) and boil it as when making a tee. Then simply pour that lavender water in the bath for a great aroma in the bathroom while soaking with a good book (just make sure to have a strainer, you don't want your water to be full of lavender pieces!). It's simply heavenly!
  • Dawn_Mathisen_aka_Candle_Dawn May 6, 2011 @ 4:49 pm | delete
    Awesome job of demonstrating the many great uses for lavender! Love it! Throrough, educational and enjoyable. As such, you have been Angel Blessed today and I look forward to seeing more of your works around Squidoo!
  • SukoMiabals Mar 30, 2011 @ 7:02 pm | delete
    Lavender is really great! (just like this lens ;)
  • MaxReily Mar 28, 2011 @ 7:17 pm | delete
    I love lavender. I had a little lavender garden where I used to live, but I can't find a place to grow it in my present home. There's a lady with a lavender stall at our local farmers' market who has so many ways to use lavender. She sells lavender lemonade at her stall. Delicious! This is a lovely lens. The Purple Star certainly is appropriate!
  • everythingsbaby Mar 21, 2011 @ 8:54 am | delete
    love this lavender lens so much..if this lens could smell like lavender, i will open and read this lens everyday! thank you..
  • Sugar Mar 19, 2011 @ 7:44 am | delete
    Love love love lavender and this lens!
  • SereneSea Mar 9, 2011 @ 12:02 am | delete
    It is beautiful lavender all the way, lavender fields and lavender fragrances so refreshing and rejuvenating. A beautiful lens that pays tribute to lavender.
  • joanv334 Feb 17, 2011 @ 3:00 am | delete
    Hello, I just love lavender. Thank you for this lens!
  • asiliveandbreathe Feb 6, 2011 @ 10:33 am | delete
    I use lavender flowers and lavender sugar in my cooking. Delicious.
  • GeoffSteen Jan 26, 2011 @ 3:11 pm | delete
    Lovely recipes. I bought a great Herbes de Provence from Dean & Deluca which contains lavender. As this lens prooves, it's so much more than a bush!
  • miaponzo Jan 24, 2011 @ 11:21 am | delete
    really nice lens! Thanks!
  • AnnaleeBlysse Jan 17, 2011 @ 11:45 pm | delete
    I live near a lavender farm but they have limited hours. One of these days they'll be open when I drive by.
  • AndyPo Dec 20, 2010 @ 5:21 pm | delete
    Very interesting. I didn't know it was such a versatile plant.
  • SereneSea Dec 16, 2010 @ 11:06 pm | delete
    That's a lot of details in lavender- just got lost in the beautiful lens.
  • Margo_Arrowsmith Dec 15, 2010 @ 12:37 pm | delete
    There is not much more beautiful than a field of lavendar!
  • skiesgreen Dec 11, 2010 @ 2:36 pm | delete
    Nice lens and great topic. It is also great in wardrobes and drawers to keep moths out. Featured on Pickles
  • MTF-briguy Dec 9, 2010 @ 2:55 pm | delete
    Love the scent and kinda like the color of lavender...great site by the way!
  • spritequeen Oct 23, 2010 @ 8:42 pm | delete
    I LOVE lavender. I'm not too far from the Young Living Farms in Mona. Might have to check it out one of these days! Thanks for sharing :-)
  • LaToya998 Oct 17, 2010 @ 10:16 pm | delete
    Very interesting lens! I've seen lavender used in a lot of desserts and ice creams and was so intrigued by it. Your lens gives me a better idea of how it can be used!
  • JoyfulPamela Oct 16, 2010 @ 3:27 pm | delete
    Lavender is such a beautiful plant. It is one of my favorites - maybe it is the scent or maybe because it is also my favorite color! I wasn't aware of all the things one could do with it, so thanks for teaching me. : )
  • SelfAndSource Oct 12, 2010 @ 5:19 am | delete
    Thank You! Is it possible to "be in love with Lavender"? I've cooked with lavender and love it. Thanks for the recipes. When I go to my massage therapist I always take my ceremonial made Lavender for the therapist to add to the lotion. Love it. If I come across a bottle of lavender oil that is not pure, my nose lets me know it. It just smells artificial.
  • Intuitive Oct 11, 2010 @ 3:24 pm | delete
    I was amazed to see lavender farms on a recent visit to the Olympic Peninsula west of Seattle. I even saw a lavender latte! I have a couple plants of my own. Lovely lavender lens!
  • SofiaMann Oct 10, 2010 @ 8:21 am | delete
    It's wonderful. Do not know you could cook with lavender. Thanks for the recipes and ideas.
  • Irenemaria Oct 10, 2010 @ 3:40 am | delete
    I have loved lavender since I was a little girl. I have used it for all the things you mentioned. In my storage is lavender for the special smell!
  • Twmarsh Oct 9, 2010 @ 7:58 pm | delete
    I burn lavender candles all the time, the aroma is sooo soothing. Your Purple Star is much deserved here!
  • BuckHawk Oct 5, 2010 @ 3:59 pm | delete
    Lovely lavender lens! I enjoy my lavender essential oils to help me relax after a particularly trying day - and don't get me started on the fun of cooking with it.
  • awelldressedbullet Sep 16, 2010 @ 3:27 pm | delete
    Awwwww lavender, what a wonderful lens with so much information about a very versitile flower, I felt relaxed just reading it! A friend sent me some dried lavender from france, and I put it in my pillow. I've never tried cooking with it though, Always something new to learn! - Kathy
  • seegreen Sep 15, 2010 @ 5:56 am | delete
    I've loved this page for a while and I'm happy that I now get a chance to bless it. I really love lavender and you have created a wonderful page on this herb.
  • RinchenChodron Sep 15, 2010 @ 9:02 am | delete
    I appreciate your blessing seegreen! What a nice warm fuzzy. I love being acknowledged for a good job.
  • Meloramus Sep 14, 2010 @ 2:37 pm | delete
    Lavender is one of my favourite plants. Thanks for this informative lens.
  • BevsPaper Sep 10, 2010 @ 8:56 pm | delete
    A lovely tribute to lavender, the plant and the scent.
  • emmalarkins Sep 8, 2010 @ 2:04 pm | delete
    I love lavender! I just made a nice oil with an olive oil base and lavender essence. I wish I could smell your page!
  • whitemoss Sep 8, 2010 @ 8:30 am | delete
    I've returned as a new SquidAngel to bless this lovely lens- and added to my SquidAngel lens too
  • whitemoss Jul 11, 2010 @ 6:36 am | delete
    Just reading you lens makes me feel calm.
    I've featured it on my own lavender lens- thank you.
  • Snozzle Jun 20, 2010 @ 12:00 pm | delete
    I love lavender and have some coming into flower in my garden, which will soon be attracting the bees and such like. Know a lot more about it now - thanks!
  • Josiemarie718 Jan 3, 2010 @ 3:12 pm | delete
    okay. I bookmarked this page because I am very into herbs and oils. Thanks for the information. Also I never knew I could cook with lavender. *****
  • ideadesigns Oct 15, 2009 @ 12:16 pm | delete
    I really like this lens, lavender smell wonderful! Can lift the mood. :) 5 stars!!
  • WhiteOak50 Sep 7, 2009 @ 1:26 pm | delete
    I love Lavender...it is among my favorite scents. Thank you for adding this to the Kitchen!!
  • WindyWinters Sep 7, 2009 @ 1:18 am | delete
    Very Informative Lavender Lens. I love the smell of Lavender and even my PJ's are lavender-colored. Lensrolling to Lavender Photo Phight. :)
  • CDT Aug 6, 2009 @ 4:19 am | delete
    I love lavender...I have a huge lavender bush growing right by my front door and it's smells wonderful every time I go in and out :)

    I like the idea of using lavender in cooking - I'll be looking further into that :D
  • pkmcr Jun 17, 2009 @ 4:24 pm | delete
    Excellent and informative lens that is well put together - well done :-)

    Take care

    Paul
  • TheNoteBooker Jun 8, 2009 @ 3:13 am | delete
    Loved this lens. I'm planting a couple of lavender seeds myself and this lens will be very useful when flowers are showing. 5 stars. Favorited.
  • CoolFoto May 30, 2009 @ 10:04 am | delete
    Found you in Naturally Native Squids group. Lavender is grown in lots of Botanical Gardens and is beautiful!
  • draik May 8, 2009 @ 10:43 pm | delete
    Thanks for joining Shopping Online Group. Your lens was added to our feature module and it will appear randomly.
  • Evelyn_Saenz Apr 25, 2009 @ 1:01 am | delete
    Lavender is beautiful growing in the fields.
  • Floraluniverses Apr 24, 2009 @ 3:38 am | delete
    Wonderful lens! 5* and lensrolled to Floral Photography by Floraluniverses.
    Thank you so much for visiting and commenting my lens!
  • lakeerieartists Apr 15, 2009 @ 8:08 pm | delete
    Featuring this lens in the Living the Green Organic Lifestyle Blog.
  • spirituality Apr 12, 2009 @ 7:16 am | delete
    Great lens - you've been blessed by a squidoo angel :)
  • beautifuljoon Apr 6, 2009 @ 3:06 pm | delete
    Wow, so great! I am a massage therapist among other things and LOVE to learn more about herbs (aromatherapy). Thanks!
  • OrganicGiftsByDiana Mar 29, 2009 @ 11:16 am | delete
    I grow and use LOTS of lavender too.
    It is wonderful in so many ways.

    Thanks for telling folks about it !

    Organically Yours,
    Diana
  • sisterra Mar 28, 2009 @ 6:38 pm | delete
    I love lavender! It smells so wonderful. I have 2 lavender plants in my garden.
  • Joan4 Mar 28, 2009 @ 3:58 pm | delete
    I can almost smell the lavender reading this lens!
  • California_Dreamin Mar 15, 2009 @ 10:28 pm | delete
    Beautiful and fascinating lens. By the way, I live in Japan, and of course everyone knows about the cherry blossoms we have here, but the lavender fields on the northern island of Hokkaido are also a popular destination for domestic tourists. You can find out more about it if you visit my lens "Best Books on Japan" and follow the JapaniCan.com (Japan Travel Bureau's English site) link at the bottom and then just enter "lavender" in the search engine.
  • ottoblotto Feb 3, 2009 @ 1:42 am | delete
    Interesting and well written lens.
  • The_Party_Animal Jan 1, 2009 @ 10:54 am | delete
    Yahoo you are a winner in The Squidoo Home for The Holidays Lens Contest So Go Grab your badge.
  • Auntiekatkat Nov 8, 2008 @ 5:50 am | delete
    Beautiful lens, lovely graphic. Lavender honey is fabulous I live in Spain and we have a lot of it. I have masses of lavender in my garden. The best of Squidoo Food Lens would like you to a featured lensmaster tomorrow please come over and join becasue we value your quality of lens.
  • JohannTheDog Oct 2, 2008 @ 8:07 am | delete
    Great lens! We love lavender, grow it throughout our garden. Woofs, johann
  • naturegirl7 Sep 27, 2008 @ 1:28 pm | delete
    You're right, the lavender wreath fits nicely with Natural Christmas Wreaths and Other Crafts, so I lens rolled it. I wish we could grow lavender down here in the hot, humid south. I do love it.
  • Pantherart Sep 11, 2008 @ 7:43 am | delete
    Great Lens love the smell of lavender 5 stars
  • spiritartist Aug 26, 2008 @ 1:28 pm | delete
    Love Lavender, love your lens! Five stars from me!
  • Aug 7, 2008 @ 10:03 am | delete
    Cool lavender blog! I love lavender myself but I didn't know there was so much you could do with it.
  • Aug 7, 2008 @ 10:03 am | delete
    Cool lavender blog! I love lavender myself but I didn't know there was so much you could do with it.
  • gmarlett Aug 3, 2008 @ 10:50 am | delete
    Wecome to Squidoo All Stars! Very nice lens. What variety of lavender would grow well in New England?
  • brl Aug 2, 2008 @ 1:55 pm | delete
    Very nice lens. 5 stars!

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