Sequim is blessed with good growing conditions for lavender and July is the peak season for enjoying it. We have over a dozen farms of varying sizes, each with its own personality and offerings. Purple Haze, which I’m showing you today, is one of the oldest and one I always enjoy visiting.
Sequim’s annual Lavender Festival which includes music, craft sales, and lavender cultivation and distilling demonstrations at many farms, has been cancelled this year due to the pandemic.
The fields at Purple Haze are designed with an artist’s eye. They cover seven hillside acres and the property includes a gift shop and a vacation rental.
Many types of lavender are grown, including early and late varieties, and colors range from almost white to deep, rich purples. The green stripes in this shot are bushes that have already been harvested. The blossoms are available for visitors to pick. Likely, these blossoms went into some of many lavender scented products offered by Purple Haze.
Purple Haze offers ice cream and lavender-infused beverages during summer months. For us no visit would be complete without their lavender lemon custard ice cream (which has very subtle lavender undertones). Richly decadent and delicious.
Hello,
I love the scent of lavender, it looks beautiful there with the rows of purple. Such a pretty sight to see. The ice cream sounds yummy. Take care, have a happy day!
Lavender is something I never see here. The good news is that I see and eat lots of ice cream.
For some reason I can’t imagine what lavender flavored ice cream would taste like.
Culinary lavender has a mildly astringent flavor — imagine rosemary but somewhat more floral. At least, that’s my take on it. I have not used or eaten much lavender in foods.
Wow, gorgeous photos! I’d love seeing lavender growing like this. Back in 2001, I was working in San Francisco and I used to buy lavender products from someone at the Farmer’s Market there. I still have those lavender sachets for my drawers. I should order some new ones. Mine have lost most of their smell.
Beautiful!
The lavender looks incredible, nice photos and a very nice cup of ice cream.