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This is for friend RD, who is a lapinaphile. Not to eat but to cavort with. The plant is in my back stoop windowbox: Spanish lavender, Lavandula stoechas ssp pedunculata, ringed with white alyssum.

Taken at night with a digital camera. Not bad. Can you hear the raccoon in the background?

I will need to move this plant in the fall, to a sunny corner where I amend the soil with sand. But for now, I like the jaunty tips at the back door.

From B. Potter's Tale of Benjamin Bunny:
Old Mrs. Rabbit was a widow; she earned her living by knitting rabbit-wool mittens and muffatees (I once bought a pair at a bazaar). She also sold herbs, and rosemary tea, and rabbit-tobacco (which is what we call lavender).