Superblue Lavender.

Description

Superblue Lavender is a beautiful low-growing lavender variety known for its soft grey-green foliage and rich deep-blue flowers. With its calming fragrance and elegant colour, it brings a natural sense of comfort, beauty and relaxation to any space.

Botanically it is Lavandula angustifolia — English lavender, also sold as true lavender or common lavender. Shorter than a lavandin, later to yield, and worth the difference for one reason: what it does not contain.

Why this is the one you can eat

English lavender is low in camphor. Lavandins — the tall craft lavenders like Grosso — are high in it. Camphor is what makes lavender smell powerfully of lavender, and it is also what makes lavender taste like soap.

That single compound is the whole difference between culinary lavender and craft lavender. It is why we grow Superblue in its own rows, cut it for the kitchen rather than for bouquets, and why our lavender tea tastes floral instead of medicinal.

If a lavender shortbread has ever tasted like a bar of soap, it was almost certainly made with the wrong cultivar — or steeped too long. Both are fixable, and we wrote up how.

Benefits

Loved by wellness lovers, Superblue Lavender is often used to create a peaceful atmosphere, support relaxation and ease everyday stress. Its gentle floral aroma makes it a lovely choice for bedtime routines, self-care moments and calming home rituals. Superblue Lavender is also edible and can be used in baking, cooking and tea, adding a delicate floral flavour to homemade treats.

Applications

Commonly used in essential oils, dried floral products and wellness-inspired creations — especially popular for spa treatments, massage practices, aromatherapy and relaxation-focused products. As an eco-friendly and organic choice, Superblue Lavender is ideal for customers who appreciate natural ingredients, sustainable living and thoughtful self-care.

On the farm, Superblue is the whole of our culinary and pantry range: tea, edible flower buds, lavender sugar and syrup. It is also the gentlest of the three as an essential oil or hydrosol, which makes it the one we suggest for skin that reacts easily.

How it compares to our other two

We grow three cultivars and distil each separately, because blending them would flatten out exactly the differences that make each one worth having.

• Superblue — English lavender, low camphor, sweet and honeyed. The culinary one, and the gentlest on skin.
• Melissa — also English lavender, but with a citrus lift and a much smaller harvest. The bedtime one.
• Grosso — a lavandin. Bold, herbaceous, camphor-forward. Best for drying, linen and rooms, and not for the kitchen.

Choosing between oil and hydrosol rather than between cultivars? That is a different question, answered here.