Jardin du Soleil Lavender Farm is a certified organic lavender farm, offering luxury lavender bath and body products, lavender aromatherapy and herbal products, lavender soaps, lavender gifts, and lavender culinary products on the Olympic Peninsula in Sequim, Washington.
Our Lavender is grown and distilled organically on the farm with the environment in mind. We endeavor to provide quality lavender products that contain the most natural of ingredients and meet the highest standards for fine living. Experience lavender at Jardin du Soleil Lavender!
Interested in cooking with lavender? Add Jardin du Soleil certified organic culinary lavender in your spice rack and start exploring the flavor of lavender in a wide variety of foods, ranging from desserts to roasted vegetables! Check back to this blog weekly for added recipes. Use our Lavender Recipes or purchase "The Lavender Cookbook" by Sharon Shipley.
Simple ingredients full of flavor is what this salad has to offer! The rich goat cheese calms the flavors of basil and onion, while the baby greens and nectarine offer a bright refreshed flavor. Try it for your own lunch on a sunny spring afternoon, or multiply the recipe to serve the whole family at dinner. The dressing contains Jardin du Soleil's culinary lavender.

mmm... Scrumptious!
Ingredients (1 serving)
1 nectarine - pipped and sliced
a handful of baby lettuce leaves
a few young basil leaves
thin sliced red onion to taste
2 thin slices of goat's cheese
Dressing
2 tsp vinegar
1 tsp Salad Oil
a pinch of minced Jardin du Soleil Culinary Lavender
a pinch of sugar
chopped mint leaf to taste
Jardin du Soleil Lavender is ready to welcome back spring! With this in mind we’re featuring the bright and floral scents of Jardin du Soleil’s Lavender Verbena Products. Enhanced with our own certified organic lavender essential oil and fused with the fresh citrus scent of verbena, you will experience a burst of spring with each use!
Products include Shea Butter, French milled Bar Soap, Body Lotion, and Hand & Body Wash.
Try the entire line and think SPRING!
Here at Jardin du Soleil we are preparing for the upcoming season. Presently we are planting perennials and annuals for the “hot” borders in the garden. We have almost one hundred perennial seedlings started in the greenhouse; at least half of them have sprouted! This should add nice color variances in the gardens around the lavender fields.

Also, don’t forget to mark your calendars for our 14th annual Sequim Lavender Festival. Follow the link to download this year’s festival brochure. We’re looking forward to seeing you here!”
Our lavender plants are putting on a hint of green and Saint Patrick’s Day is just around the corner.
With an Irish great Grandmother named Julia Lavender, St. Patrick’s Day at Jardin du Soleil Lavender is always a special occasion .
To celebrate we are making our Verbena Lavender Products part of this day. Our Verbena Lavender products are green in color and refreshing in fragrance. Order two of any one Lavender Verbena product and we will include a third one FREE. Our Verbena Lavender Hand and Body Wash makes a great kitchen soap and the Lavender Verbena Lotion is truly uplifting. Treat yourself to our Verbena Lavender Shea Butter for those rough, dry, winter hands. Our 3 for 2 Verbena Lavender offer is good through 03/17/10.
And don’t forget the Herbs de Provence to add a new flavor to your St. Pat’s Day corned beef.
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day from Jardin du Soleil Lavender.
Since the temperature has dropped a bit, this recipe for Rice Pudding with Jardin du Soleil Culinary Lavender should hit the spot!
Ingredients
½ cup rice
2 ½ cup whole milk
1 cup boiling water
2 tablespoons Jardin du Soleil Culinary Lavender
2/3 cup sugar
2 ½ tablespoons cornstarch
Instructions
Put milk, sugar and Jardin du Soleil Culinary Lavender in a small pot, bring to boiling point, and remove from heat immediately. Let the mixture steep for at least 30 minutes, longer depending on how strong you wish lavender flavor to be. In a separate pot, add rice to boiling water; cook on medium heat with the lid half closed for 15 minutes, or until water is absorbed by the rice.
In a small bowl, mix cornstarch together with a couple teaspoons of water and a bit of the hot milk mixture, to slightly increase the cornstarch temperature. Then add the this to the steeping milk. Transfer the infused milk through a strainer into the rice and cook for 30 minutes or so, until you reach the desired consistency. Transfer the pudding into your serving dish and refrigerate, covered with plastic wrap, until serving.
Looking for something a bit richer? Try our Jardin du Soleil Lavender Crème Brulee! (It’s the 5th recipe down.)
Hello and welcome back to Jardin du Soleil!
At the farm this week we’ve had spring knocking at our door. The daffodils are popping up everywhere, looking much like little sunbursts tucked away in small pockets of the farm. Makes for a very cheery garden!



Also this week, the pond was finished. Still to be added are the plantings around, but here are some up to date photos. It makes for a nice addition. Come take a look next time you visit the farm!
Happy Gardening,
Boo



SPRING CLEANING SPECIAL! It is just like Spring at Jardin du Soleil Lavender and it is only the last month of February. Our fruit trees and daffodils are already blooming! The lavender is still pretty dormant and this is good as we do not want early flowers. But we are in the mood for Spring Cleaning! So we are making our Lavender Linen Closet gift available at a special price of $24.00 so that you will have all you need to start your spring cleaning. Refresh your linens with our Lavender Dryer Sachets, spritz the guest linens with Lavender Linen Water and put a lavender sachet or two in the linen closet. Renew your lavender potpourri with lavender buds from our last harvest. Put new bars of Jardin du Solell lavender soap in your bathrooms to diffuse the fragrance and put yourself in the mood for Spring and Summer and lavender. Linen Closet Special good through 3/06/10
Yields 1 cup of Dressing
Ingredients
* 3/4 cup salad oil
* 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar (try sherry vinegar for a nice alternative)
* 2 tablespoons lemon juice
* 2 garlic cloves, minced
* 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
* 2-4 tablespoons Jardin du Soleil Lavender Honey (start with less, then adjust to taste)
* 1-2 tablespoon Jardin du Soleil Culinary Lavender, ground**
* salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Combine all ingredients except for salt and pepper in a bowl and blend or whisk well. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour prior to serving to allow ingredients to marinate. Whisk before serving.
Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper if desired.
**Lavender can be finely ground in a spice grinder or in a thoroughly cleaned coffee grinder.
For an extra special taste, enjoy a sweet, savory, protein packed crunch on your salad. Simply candy walnuts or pecans with melted sugar and sprinkle with lavender and a little salt, then add to your salad. Gourmet has never been easier!
Hello All,
Sorry about missing you last week, but the Northwest Garden Show was on my 'to do' list. Jardin du Soleil owners, Pam and Randy, had volunteered to man the Sequim Lavender Association information booth. It was a long day in Seattle, but I found some unique hostas to add to our collection in the gardens at JDS. One was called the Drinking Gourd, which is apparently a deformed hybrid, and the other was called the T-REX, growing up to three feet tall with eight inch wide leaves. Very cool.
Drinking Gourd Hosta
Back on the farm this week, I have almost finished the pond. The waterfall, filter, and pump are all in. All I have left are asthetics and rockery. And soon Pam can have her fish!
Watch for updated photos! Happy Gardening!
Boo
This Valentine's Day don't forget about YOU! Give a little extra love to yourself with any Jardin du Soleil product. May we suggest our featured product Lavender to Go, or even our Frequent Flier lavender set. With either of these you will have Jardin du Soleil lavender products in petite packages that will quickly become an essential accessory to your purse or pocket! Happy Valentine's!
Make sure to place your orders by the 13th of February to receive FREE SHIPPING on all online orders of $60 or more!