Author: Lavender Hill

Lavender Hot Chocolate Fusion

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It’s snowing here and the wind is HOWLING! Time for a warm-up by the fire with a mug of hot chocolate ~ fused with the gentle taste of lavender.

Made from three simple ingredients, I created this decadent lavender hot chocolate fusion recipe in 2016 when I introduced it to local markets.

If you would like to make Lavender Hot Chocolate Fusion in your own kitchen, the recipe is available as a FREE digital download from my Rustic Lavender Boutique where, for a limited time, all lavender products are 10% off (with code: lavendersale10) AND until January 19th (because it’s Ukrainian Christmastime) take an additional 10% off your entire cart with code: ILoveUkraine

Time to drink up and add another log to the fire….

Go to the Rustic Lavender Boutique

Time to get back into the studio

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Time to get back into the studio and continue works-in-progress. This is a paper-cutting design that I’ve been playing with entitled Smoke Clearing Kananaskis Country. Its inspiration is a photo I took summer 2018 in the Canadian Rockies when lots of smoke was pouring into the Valley from forest fires.

I spent time watching this Raven or rather trickster, as I prefer to see the Raven as a symbol of change and transformation (for the good), dancing about as we enjoyed a break from the thick smoke lingering down in the Valley.

Design Work ‘Smoke clearing K-Country’

Eat Lavender Love

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Limited Edition White Lavender Jelly
Available while supplies last in the Rustic Lavender Boutique

Lavender Jelly ~ as an appetizer…it pairs beautifully with an aged cheese atop a plain cracker…’plain’ this is important…as you won’t want the cracker to get in the way of the perfect flavour marriage between Jelly and Cheese. In the photo is my Limited Edition White Lavender Jelly on aged local cheddar sitting on a plain soda cracker.
~Eat Lavender Love 💜

Budding Lavender

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It’s almost summer solstice and my lavender is in varying stages of budding up and budding out. The L. angustifolia varieties are in bud while the L. x intermedia are far behind ~ but that’s normal for the lavadins of Lavender Hill that bloom later.

This is three year old L. angustifolia ‘Hidcote’ variety of lavender that I planted, towards the end of summer 2016, into the flower bed that runs alongside my driveway. This year, I’ll allow this little L. angustifolia to flower, whereas in year 1 and year 2, I cut or pinched off any flower spikes to direct energy into the plant rather than expend that energy on producing flower spikes.

This is another 3 year old L. angustifolia ‘Hidcote’ planted out in one of the lavender streams. Its development isn’t as advanced as its sister in the other location.

Subtle colouring between varieties and varying stages of growth may be seen in the following photos:

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The Purple Road

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Have you heard about The Purple Road?

The Purple Road is the public face of the Ontario Lavender Association.

Established in 2010, the Ontario Lavender Association (OLA) represents the interests of lavender growers within the Province of Ontario.

Lavender Hill became a member in 2015 to 2019 when the associated membership fee became a financial hardship for us and we regrettably put our membership on hiatus.

On the OLA’s website you will find The Purple Road with links to Ontario lavender growers, producers and suppliers of lavender and lavender based products.

Lavender Hill is a small ‘p’ producer of lavender. Harvested by hand, bundled and hung in our drying room, Lavender Hill sells its crop at our seasonal roadside stand and at local farmers’ markets.

The Purple Road