• StudSpud The StarchyOP
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    TIL that the word lavender is derived from the same root word that launder/laundry does: Proto-Indo European *leue - to wash.

    Lavender was used to make laundry smell nice.

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      Legit. My granny would pin her smalls out on the lavender bushes to dry, not the line. And made lavender bags every year to deter moths.

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        Ooooo I like that!! I need a lavender bush, it’s my favourite smell! But my balcony gets almost no direct sunlight, so I don’t think it would survive lol!

        But if/when I move, I’ll be pinning my smalls all over that lavender haha

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            I got a double lavender plant earlier this year. It hasn’t flowered since I planted it, but its so pretty. I also have established English and French lavenders that I harvest for little smelly wardrobe bags.