Lavender Fields Ontario

Laveanne Lavender Fields

Lavender Fields Ontario: What a stunning location for photos at these beautiful lavender fields. It was POURING rain the entire day prior to the scheduled session time but fortunately the rain held off while I photographed these beautiful families.

Many thanks to Laveanne lavender fields for hosting us, we will be back again.

http://laveanne.ca/

Here is a history of how Laveanne got started, very interesting read:

“To create a relaxing lavender destination that would provoke visions of lavender fields in France, has been the dream that my husband and I have shared since 2008. When our organic nursery business Grow Tasty had grown it’s collection of lavender to over 40 varieties, we felt we wanted to share this beautiful and versatile plant with more people.

Since then many hours of research, planning and much hard work have gone into physically creating our dream, that is now Laveanne. Discover Laveanne and experience the French region of Provence without leaving Ontario.

In the late summer of 2010 we started propagating the lavender we would need for our project. We started over 10,000 lavender cuttings. In early 2011 the rooted cuttings were potted up and held in our Greenhouse until we could plant them.

Meanwhile we had been busy preparing the fields for planting. We started planting late August and were finished planting by early October with a few weeks for our backs to recover we then started the task of covering the lavender for winter.

Our Journey

THE HISTORY OF LAVEANNE

That winter the young lavender plants hibernated happily. If we hadn’t run out of time that previous fall we would not have had the set back with erosion as we had in the spring of 2012.

We spent all that summer establishing grass paths and weeding and manicuring the fields and plants. We had successfully created over 4 acres of lavender fields and gardens in a park like setting. With a very large lavender labyrinth, a relaxing 1/2km walk which takes about 12 minutes at a comfortable pace. We also created a mother bed with the many lavender cultivars we have collected. We are proud that we have the largest selection of lavender varieties in Canada and have assembled for you Canada’s National Collection; with lavenders in every colour from white, pinks, blues, violets, to red and even a rare yellowish green.

We want Laveanne to be educational as well as beautiful, and offer both guided and unguided tours with interpretive signs. We invite you to join in our seminars and demonstrations on successfully growing lavender, harvesting of lavender flowers, and the extraction of
lavender oil.”

Sourced from: http://laveanne.ca/history—laveanne.html