Arrive at Chris and Jackie Pinard’s home this time of year and you are welcomed by a curve of purple – long lanes of lavender plants flanking the gravel drive. They form fragrant ribbons that thread ...

“I sometimes run counter to tradition,” says Laurent Fages. "At one point I was giving horse-back rides, I brew beer. Now it’s lavender. I've been known to do things a little differently!” Fages runs ...

Every summer, millions of travelers venture to the sun-drenched French region of Provence. One of its biggest draws? Symmetrical fields of sweet-scented, violet-hued lavender. Images of them light up ...

Lavender is a versatile and fragrant plant that can enhance any garden with its vibrant colors and soothing scent. If you want to incorporate lavender into your landscaping but don't know where to ...

With its swathes of waving blue flowers, delicious scent and squadrons of butterflies and bees, I am standing in a field that could be in Provence in the South of France. A great plantation of ...

SIMIANE-LA-ROTONDE, France, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Here and there in the highest plateaus of Haute-Provence, the scent of heady lavender still mixes with sun-baked pine, as tractors slice through last of ...