The lavender this year is quite spectacular, with the bloom in the labyrinth coming on strong! Bloom season is spread out over about six weeks, giving visitors multiple opportunities to visit and experience the beauty. Reservations required. Reserve your parking spot today for Lavender Daze (June 12, 19, and July 3) or for the Lavender U-Cut Experience (June 26-27 and July 10-11).
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Farm Tours
Farm tours are coming up soon! Our Learn About Lavender tour focuses on how lavender is grown, harvested, and processed, with some hands-on demonstrations and a special lavender sensory experience with different lavender oils. There are two dates for the Learn About Lavender tour, July 24 and July 31. Tour tickets available through our Online Store.
If you want to learn about what goes on inside a beehive, you’ll want to do The Buzz About Bees tour on August 7. On this tour, we’ll take a peek through the window of one of our top-bar hives (no bee suit required) to watch the bees at work, talk about the structure of a honey bee colony, and how the bees are doing now. We’ll also talk about common native bees and butterflies in Northern California and wrap up with a honey tasting of Sonoma County honeys. Tour tickets available through our Online Store.
Focus on Folgate
One of our favorite lavenders is Folgate. It’s vibrant purple blooms light up the Labyrinth entrance pathway and the fourth circle in the Labyrinth and is in peak bloom right now. Folgate is an angustifolia lavender and blooms in early June here in Sonoma County. We have a few Folgate plants left in the nursery, propagated directly from these parent plants. Check out the Lavender Bloom Status page for this year and for previous years to see how the bloom progresses.
Meditate on Munstead
Munstead lavender is another angustifolia variety with brilliant purple blooms. It is peaking right now in the labyrinth. We love Munstead because it blooms once with extravagance in June and again, more reservedly, in late August and September. In the labyrinth, Munstead lines the outer edges of the entrance pathways and occupies the second circle from the outside. The bumblebees swoon over Munstead lavender and so do we! We have some of these beauties in the nursery too. Check out the Lavender Bloom Status page from this year and previous years to see how Munstead changes over the season.
