Cotton Lavender (Santolina chamaecyparissus)
Flowers: June to August. Height: 30 – 90cm (12 – 36in).
Leaves and flowers were added to pot-pouri and placed in linen chests and wardrobes to repel moths and fleas. Its dried foliage was mixed with chamomile and coltsfoot and used as herbal tobacco.
Medicinal: For poisonous bites, stings and internal parasites.
At Bolton Castle, yellow cotton lavender is intertwined with purple lavender to represent the Scrope Family (the first residents of Bolton Castle) in heraldic terms – blue with a gold diagonal band which is called ‘azure, a bend or’.
