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MEAD, Wash. -- Lavender is finally in bloom this summer! If you want to pick your own, Fleur de Provence on Green Bluff opens this Friday, July 7. According to the owner, the cooler weather towards ...

THE WORD "LAVENDER"? You'll often find it alongside "purple" and "fragrant" and "lovely," in various paragraphs and passages. But finding it in a sentence that also happens to mention "Provence," the ...

In gardens, lavender creates a hedge of feathery silver purple. A drop of cool lavender oil on the temple relieves headaches. Thrown in a drawer, it makes underwear smell good. But do you want to put ...

The scent and the colors are upon us: periwinkle-purple lavender, with its distinctive sweet smell, waving dreamlike in the wind on a hot day and returning us to the Tuscany and Provence of our dreams ...

Lavender is lovely. In summer, the purple fields of Provence beckon bands of tourists, who book trips to France to take in the undulating waves of color and heady perfume from the flowers. As it turns ...