However, BabyGanics Glass & Surface Cleaner's fresh lavender scent left my office overly perfumed.

But for about two more weeks, fresh lavender will be available from the North Fork of Long Island.

Bunches of their fresh lavender are also at Fairway markets, $8 each.

To complete the celebration, make sure some fresh lavender is added to that bouquet and take the phone off the hook.

I see no reason to buy parasitic insects when fresh lavender is perfectly acceptable.

In the Provencal kitchen, fresh lavender - lavandou in the local dialect - shows up mainly in confectionary or in ice creams and vinegars.

Like cut flowers, fresh lavender is best kept in water.

So, Jackson's brief - for a fresh, live, realistic lavender - enabled her to construct around 70 different prototypes, built not for performance on skin but as design elements.

Other farmers sell fresh lavender for cooking and flower arrangements and for use in soap and perfume.

There, Lavender by the Bay, open on weekends, has six acres planted with 18 kinds of fresh lavender ($7 a bunch) and sells lavender honey, $9 for eight ounces.