Carshalton’s annual Lavender harvest returns next month

One weekend a year, a 3-acre private lavender field is open to the public to visit and harvest your own bunch of lavender from the fields.
(c) Carshalton Lavender
At one time, lavender was widely grown across much of south London as a crop, but these days it’s found in just a handful of locations, and in 1996, a 3-acre plot of disused land in Carshalton was planted with Lavandula Intermedia by the local environmental charity BioRegional.
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