Lavandula stoechas 'Otto Quast'

Also Known As

Lavandula stoechas 'Quasti'
Otto Quast Spanish Lavender
Spanish Lavender

Plant type

shrub, herb

size

H: 1'-2'
W: 2'-3'

planting zones

7a-10b

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Lavandula stoechas 'Otto Quast' plant details

Lavandula stoechas 'Otto Quast' is a broadleaf evergreen herb or shrub with blue and green foliage. In spring and summer magenta and purple flowers emerge. Features fuzzy texture. Attracts bees making it an excellent addition to pollinator gardens. Grows well with sun and occasional water. Drought tolerant once established. Prefers to be dry in summer. Does well in average, gritty, rocky and well-drained soil. A good option if you're seeking something heat tolerant.

CHARACTERISTICS OF Lavandula stoechas 'Otto Quast'

Plant type: herb or shrub
Plant family: lamiaceae
Foliage: evergreen blue and green
Mature size: 2 FT - 3 FT - wide, 1 FT - 2 FT - tall
Flowers: magenta and purple blooms in spring and summer
Uses: cutting garden, dried-arrangements, fragrant, sensory garden, xeric, year round interest

GROWING CONDITIONS for Lavandula stoechas 'Otto Quast'

USDA Zones: 7a - 10b
Sun exposure: sun
Watering frequency: occasional
Resistant to: deer, rabbit and snail / slug, heat
Soil needs: average, gritty, rocky and well-drained

Nursery contributed plant descriptions

Fragrant, winged, deep-purple flower spikes rise above the dense 2' mound of fine, gray-green foliage. This evergreen shrub is wonderfully tough and easy-care; an optimal specimen for borders and rock gardens that will handle summer heat and drought effortlessly. Also makes a fine groundcover, especially when massed on a slope. S/M-D/GDr

By: Forestfarm

This popular selection forms a dense shrub with grey-green foliage. The flower stems bear tight flower spikes of small purple flowers crowned by several one inch long magenta purple petal-like bracts that look like butterflies. 'Otto Quast' has a long bloom period from late spring through to fall. Shear lavenders lightly in early spring just as they begin growth and again after flowering to keep tidy.

By: Phoenix Perennials and Specialty Plants Ltd.

Busy compact with red-purple flowers

By: Jockey Hill Nursery

An extremely popular lavender in California gardens, 'Otto Quast' is a vigorous and durable cultivar to 3' tall with an equal spread. The unusual purple flowers form from mid-spring to fall. Hardy to 10F.

By: Native Sons

Dark purple flowers. Silvery-gray foliage.

By: Little Prince of Oregon

Dense, bushy shrub with lance-shaped, aromatic, silver-gray foliage covers a compact, mounding habit reaching to 2' high, and slightly greater in width. Slender stems support long lasting spikes of deep, royal purple bracts, which have a more intense color than the species.

By: Greer Gardens Inc.

Small, evergreen shrub, 1-2' tall x 2-3' wide, with inch long leaves, very gray-green, and purple flowers from early spring to late summer and occasionally all year. Like all lavenders, likes full sun and well-drained soil with only occasional summer water. This form, found by Otto Quast and introduced by California's Homestead Nursery, is frost hardy to 0 °F, USDA zone 7.