Lavender Festival Fun with the Toddlers
We were fortunate to be able to make it this year to the Blanco Texas Lavender Festival. Blanco in Spanish means white, but since Blanco has become the Lavender Capital of Texas they are now Lavender in color. Although the Lavender Lemonade was pale yellow, and an absolutely delicious to taste.! And the Lavender lemon cookies are the best ever.! We skipped the court yard market to go straight out to the farms to see the demonstrations. Unfortunately, we arrived late. We did get to attend the how to raise Lavender class at Hill Country Lavender Farm . . The lady there was really good at answering questions. I bought 2 plants to go in the garden at home. They had Lavandula angustifolias or English lavenders, Munstead Lavender. It was the best for the drier climate. The second farm we went two was Heron's Nest Herb Farm. Our purpose for going there was to learn how to distill the oils from herbs. I ended up buy...