As I don't like seeing bare soil I fill in gaps with lavender plants. Apart from smelling lovely if you brush against it, it spreads well and removes the need for weeding.
Pauline Norris in Somerset made spider patterned pincushions filled with lavender to send to everyone, using the lavender from her garden. We don't have anything like as much as that. Some of the pincushions with the lace edging that was made for them are on Lori's Lace Fairy pages: http://lace.lacefairy.com/Arachne/Pincushions.html When DH was serving his engineerin apprenticehsip he worked for a company that made filling machines, and one of the jobs was for filling bottles with Old English Lavender toilet water. The company was given several gallons of it to test the machines, and they couldn't return it after testing because "it was contaminated with oil from the machines". All the wives and girlfriends had enough toilet water to last several years. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
