SEQUIM — If your life is lavender, you learn not to fret.
So said Barbara Hanna, owner of Lost Mountain Lavender, one of the chilliest farms preparing for the Sequim Lavender Festival July 18, 19 and 20.
The June-uary effect — as in colder, wetter conditions than what’s hoped for at this time of year — has spawned a concern that Hanna has heard from several people, she said.
It goes like this: The weather’s been so bad that the lavender fields won’t be all that purple by mid-July, jeopardizing the events that draw some 30,000 people to Sequim.
A walk among Hanna’s rows — 80 varieties of lavender in the main field, 20 more in the demonstration garden — indicates otherwise.
The angustifolias — English lavenders that produce mild, sweet flowers beloved by cooks — are beginning to show their true color.
“These are the ones that bloom earliest, and they have good buds on them,” Hanna said last week.
