Plants That Repel Mosquitoes

Plants That Repel Mosquitoes

There are 5 plants that are known to repel mosquitoes. Marigolds have a smell that insects find objectionable. Rosemary is another one that has oil that repels mosquitoes. Catnip is an herb that is more effective then Deet. 

Citronella is a grass like plant that company's manufacture for repelling mosquitoes.

If you are hosting an outdoor event have either Lavender oil or fresh Lavender can be used as a repellent. Spritz your tablecloths with the fresh soothing scent of lavender, your guests will enjoy the scent and be bug free as well! Or tuck sprigs of cut lavender into bouquets. Pretty to look at, and very useful!

Lavender distilled hydrosol will keep mosquitoes away when it is applied to the skin. Be sure to buy lavender that has been distilled, and avoid trying to distill it yourself, with insight from the owner of Lavender Skies farm. 

Sweet Smelling Deer Resistant Plants & Sprays

With some deer resistant plants & sprays, you can keep deer out of the yard while adding sweet smells to the area. These are attractive, fragrant, and very effective at deterring the four-footed creatures. Deer are not harmed when exposed to these plants or sprays. They just prefer to steer clear of them due to the smell or other qualities. 

Geranium & Lavender plants are attractive and feature fragrant foliage that deters deer. No plant or flower is deer proof, but some are more effective than others at deterring deer year round. 

Weathering The 100 Year Storm Ireen

Can't Fight Mother Nature... But Lavender Skies will replant and prevail !

Pots of Fleurs Dazzel Guests with Lavender Skies Lavender

Thank you Lavender Skies for providing the beautiful Lavender!
www.nancyswiezyevents.com

New York's Central Park Horses Love Lavender Skies Equine Insect Repellent

Met Jessie James & his fine horseman
 Adrian Marrs of Cavalier Carriages. 
 Look for them around Central Park!

Lavender Art By Patricia Wersinger

Patricia Wersinger grew up in Alsace in the East of France. She works in watercolor, oil and acrylic on paper, canvas and wood panels. Her whimsical illustrations and paintings are a mixture of expressionism, realism, children art, folk art, surrealism, primitive and abstract art. Some paintings are playful and bright, childlike and magical and others dark, grim and enigmatic. The notion of the personal is not popular in our generic, commercial culture but for Patricia the discovery of who she is and what strange and uncommon worlds live within her is what makes every painting an interesting journey. Titillating between realistic conventions and free flowing compositions and abstraction, her visual world represents the diary of an ever evolving self and its unique aspects. Playing with conventional realistic illusions and using them as props reveal invisible unconscious forces as if through a third eye. Patricia thinks that the work of art is a way of breaking with the limits imposed on us from the outside, get beyond the world of appearances to reach to the infinity of truth and harmony. A recipient of the Barbara Susman award, Patricia lives and works in New York City

 Patricia Wersinger
patriciacosmica.carbonmade.com
pwersinger.carbonmade.com
patriciamariepascale.carbonmade.com

Lavender Skies Farm Celebrates Bastille Day in Time Square

The French Culture Nights organizing the BASTILLE FESTIVAL 2011 on the Novotel Hotel's fantastic Terrace, overlooking Time Square.
Marie Antoinette was on hand with her Big Lavender Skies  hair of course! 




This BASTILLE FESTIVAL  brought together the best of the French speaking world through Art exhibitions, Flowers, Musical performances, Wine education, Culinary demonstrations, Activities for Kids and much more. Lavender Skies showcased their many lavender products.
All the guests were able to take home some fresh cut lavender from the Virginia farm. 
Nancy Swiezy Events designed the flowers and table.

Many Thanks to: 
Caroline Haddad  The French Culture Nights
www.frenchculturenights.com


Nancy Swiezy www.NancySweizyEvents.com 


The Winner of the Gift Basket is... 
Carolyn Faith
of Brooklyn NY

SWEET MELISSA LAVENDER By The Virginia Sea Side!

SWEET MELISSA- the aroma of this plant is very sweet and fragrant,fantastic for culinary use. The delicate soft-lavender pink-white flowers are formed on a medium plant with bushy habit. 


Floral Design By www.NancySweizyEvents.com

No Flee Flee's For FieFie!

Dear Lavender Skies,

You have saved my Fabulous French Derriere!

With just one spay of Bug Off, 
ZFlees & Bugs Bygone!

Now that I’m fresh and clean, the dogs can't resist me.   OHLALA!!!

By the way my owner smells pretty good too,
for a human!

Thank You Lavender Skies

You are a dog’s best friend!


  Adieu, 

  Fie Fie

Natural Insect Repellents

There are 5 plants that are known to repel mosquitoes.
Marigolds have a smell that insects find objectionable.
Rosemary is another one that has oil that repels mosquitoes.
Catnip is an herb that is more effective then Deet.
Citronella is a grass like plant that company's manufacture for repelling mosquitoes.
And Lavender!


If you are hosting an outdoor event have either Lavender oil or fresh Lavender can be used as a repellent.
Spritz your tablecloths with the fresh soothing scent of lavender, your guests will enjoy the scent and be bug free as well! Or tuck sprigs of cut lavender into bouquets. Pretty to look at, and very useful!


Lavender distilled hydrosol will keep mosquitoes away when it is applied to the skin.


www.LavenderSkiesVA.com

Lavender Hydrosol

Lavender Skies Lavender Hydrosol
Origin-Onancock, Virginia

Parts Distilled- Flowers of Lavandula angustifolia

Method of Cultivation- 100 % All Natural no chemicals

This is one of the more relaxing and balancing hydrosols from our collection of flower waters. It is ideal for oily and combination skin, and is an excellent coolant for minor burns, rashes, and hot sores. Mentally refreshing and marvelous on the emotions! Suitable for food and cosmetic use.

                                                                                 www.LavenderSkiesVA.com

Rose Hydrosol

Lavender Skies Rose Hydrosol 

Origin- Onancock, Virginia

Parts Distilled-Petals of Rosa damascene  from Kenya

Method of Cultivation - 100 % All Natural no chemicals

One of our favorites! It is a wonderful toner for all skin types, and makes a practical and suitable body splash, anti-anxiety spray, deodorant, room freshener, and for one of those days when we feel sensual. This is an aphrodisiac with embedded roots dating back thousands of years. Suitable for food and cosmetic use.

www.LavenderSkiesVA.com

Helichrysum Hydrosol

Lavender Skies Helichrysum Hydrosol

Parts Distilled- Flowers of Helichrysum italicum

Method of Cultivation- 100 % All Natural

No chemicals

A deeply therapeutic and healing hydrosol with unrivaled skin toning benefits. Helichrysum hydrosol makes a lightly refreshing facial mist for mature and dry skin, with a mildly dry and "toasty" aroma. This is the best hydrosol we have experienced for those in search of a complete skin toning and healing experience. Not for food use. www.LavenderSkiesVA.com

All About Hydrosols

Flower Waters (Hydrosols)
Hydrosols, also known as floral waters, hydroflorates, flower waters or distillates are produced from steam-distilling plant materials. Hydrosols have similar properties to essential oils but are much less concentrated. Unlike their "essential oil added to water" counterparts, true steam-distilled hydrosols contain all the beneficial components that whole plant materials have to offer.
Hydrosols are usually a by-product of essential oil production, but the highest quality comes from devoted distillers who, with artist-like precision, steam small batches of fresh floral and plant material strictly to produce hydrosol (the hydrosols offered by Lavender Skies are produced in this fashion). All of our hydrosols are distilled in copper stills, processed through sterilized methods in Onancock, Virginia. Hydrosols contain all of the essence of the plant in every drop, just like essential oils but in a milder form; making them suitable for all manner of applications where essential oils would be too strong. In most hydrosols there is less than 5% actual oil.
Please note that their aromas are mostly mild and subtle, sometimes bright and fragrant, and most hydrosols have an herby or grassy note indicative of their authentic and therapeutic properties.
Wonderful as a facial splash, body perfume, deodorant or air freshener. Cool a hot flash, change your mood or add them to lotions and creams.
 Each of our hydrosols is packaged in a translucent pink, cobalt blue, purple bottle with a black mister. The bulk 8 oz, 16 oz ounce and 1 gallon waters are packaged in HDPE plastic bottles.


A FEW APPLICATIONS FOR HYDROSOLS:
Hydrates dry, sensitive, mature or oily skin after cleansing or shower; apply before using facial oils or creams.
Soothes sunburn and minor irritations of the skin.
Excellent for frequent flyers or high & dry altitudes that can dry out the skin.
Provides a light cooling mist during hot days outdoors or in a dry office.
Use a few tablespoons in a bath for newborns or small children to help calm. 

"Lavender" By Artist Eric Dever

One of my favorite painters !
www.ericdever.com
Lavender, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, 2004
















Sara Nightingale Gallery 688 Montuak Highway Water Mill NY 11976
http://www.saranightingale.com/
Opening Reception: Sat., August 20 2011, 6-8pm

Come Join Us At The Bastille Festival 2011 AT The Novotel Hotel NYC

Come  join  Nancy Sweizy Events  and Maryann Cusimano Of Lavender Skies at the


BASTILLE FESTIVAL
On July 16 2011 
3:00 to 9:00 PM
SKY DECK Terrace

Novotel Hotel - 226 W 52 St.NYC NY

we will be showcasing American French Lavender
and  our newest product


LAVENDER SKIES INSECT REPELLENT Exclusively for Dogs and their Owners!





http://lavenderskiesva.com

http://ww.nancyswiezyevents.com/

Check Out These Lavender Skies!

Lavender Skies Joins Everything Lavender

Many thanks to Sharon for including us on her web site.
Sharon grew up working in her Mothers garden at a very young age.
Her site is about lavender benefits, how to crafts, wreaths, sachets, batons and lavender wands. She hopes to pass this love of lavender to her children.


Visit us at her site!  http://everything-lavender.com/lavender-farms.html

The Susan G. Komen Foundation and Lavender Skies

Lavender Skies is proud to donate a portion of its proceeds to 
The Susan G. Komen Foundation for the cure of Breast Cancer.

www.w5.komen

Contact Us About  Our  Pink Ribbon Lavender Fund Raising Program. 

The Lavender Skies Mission

Lavender Skies, is an all natural eco-friendly lavender producer located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

 Our lavender products are handmade, “home-grown”. 


 We design to inspire consumers to live a life of well being in today's world. 


Our focus is on reducing, reusing, recycling making minimal impact on the environment.

There is a Buzz About Lavender Honey Today!

Provance Inspired Lavender Flower Arrangements

Lavender Skies provided the lavender bundles for this Provance Inspired Flower Arrangement.  

Designed Nancy Swiezy Events.
www.nancysweizyevents.com 
917 355 0689
nancyswiezyevents@gmail.com

Lavender Art By Wendy Hyde

Wendy Hyde’s large scale oil on canvas or paper works depict the turbulent and monumental nature of our inner worlds. Subtle, smoky hues cross wide, spirited expanses as Hyde’s scraping, swelling, sliding forms fold into veils of cascading light and shadow. These effervescent environments and the artist’s fiery palette serve as a visual narrative which lays out for the audience the restorative power of metaphysical states, emotionality, sensuality and the inner gaze. Chiefly of the Abstract Expressionist school, Hyde names Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline as her most profound artistic influences. 
Wendy Hyde was born in the UK and studied Fine Art at Coventry University. After teaching Life Drawing Skills for seven years, she decided to devote herself full-time to painting. She currently lives and works in the Midlands area of England.  United in Art: Fine Art from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales


View Wendy Hyde's art for sale on Art-Mine.com

Virginia Lavender Farm

Wholesale Lavender Products, Premium Lavender Buds ,Wholesale Bulk Lavender Buds, Lavender private labeling, Lavender, Bulk & Wholesale Organic Lavender Products,

wholesale bulk dried lavender buds
 wholesale wedding favors
wholesale lavender sachets,
lavandar, made in the usa 
Selling wholesale lavender
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organically grown lavender

Wholesale lavender
wholesale lavender bath and body products. 
A unique line of wholesale lavender products
Lavender private labeling available

About Onancock Virginia

Onancock Town developed quickly into an important community. From 1680 until 1693 the county court was located here, and there was an Anglican church. In the early years Quakers lived in Onancock, and the town was home to the Presbyterian pioneer Francis Makemie. But no permanent church was established until Francis Asbury, the Methodist bishop, preached here in 1788 and a Methodist congregation was founded.

In November 1782, a full year after the surrender of the British at Yorktown, a Marylander named Zedekiah Whaley put into Onancock seeding aid against the tory ships that were still marauding up and down the Chesapeake, and which had just been sighted at the entrance of Onancock Creek. Colonel John Cropper and 25 of this men from the Accomack militia volunteered to lend a hand, and they set sail from Onancock on board Whaley's fleet of barges. On November 30, 1782, the very day that the articles of peace were signed in Europe, the "Battle of the Barges" took place in Dedge's Straits above Smith Island in Maryland. At the first sigh of battle all the American barges fled except Whaley's "Protector," which there upon bore the brunt of the battle. When an ammunition chest aboard the "Protector" exploded, members of the crew who were not killed outright were thrown overboard. or jumped into the water with clothes ablaze. The British easily had the better of the engagement, and among those who died was Commodore Whaley, Cropper, though defeated, arranged an exchange of prisoners, and the Americans put back into to Anechoic with 25 drowned or killed, 29 wounded, and only 11 unscathed. Whaley was buried in Onancock, and in Maryland an official government investigation of the cowardice of the other American commanders was launched.

By the beginning of the 19th century Onancock was out growing its original boundaries and pushing eastward. In 1826 a post office was established, and in 1832 a ferry to Norfolk. Many homes in town today date from the first half of the 1800's When the Union army occupied the peninsula during the Civil War, they singled out Onancock as the place that had "concocted more mischief....in the way of blockade running and disloyalty" than any other community on the Shore.  After the Civil War, Onancock became one of the major stops for the colorful steamboats that ferried both passengers and freight up and down the Chesapeake. This direct link with the larger cities of Virginia and Maryland boosted the town's prosperity and growth, and much of the town dates from this period. The town was incorporated in 1882. Two years later the railroad lines missed Onancock by about two miles, but the town, which lies four miles inland from the bay, benefited from its presence and became even more important as a commercial center and port.

With a population of 1,434, Onancock is today the second largest community on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Though almost all commerce is by land on the Shore today, the Onancock Wharf is still in use, more than three centuries after its founding. 

http://www.esva.com/onancockmap.htm#history

Southeast Expeditions Kayakers Love Lavender Skies Bug Repellent!

Discover the natural beauty of the last wild coast in the Mid-Atlantic with South East Expeditions, the Eastern Shore’s watersports resource.  With over 25 years of professional paddling experience, our Virginia Certified Eco-Tour Guides are all trained naturalists as well as world class kayak instructors.
Trips, Classes, and Gear available for paddlers of all skill levels.
The Eastern Shore of Virginia is a paddler’s paradise, perfect for your first trip or your next great adventure.

Give us a call at (757) 331-2680 to make your reservations today!


http://www.onancock.org/kayaking/

Where to Find Lavender Skies Products

Lavender Skies Herbal Transdermal Soap

INGREDIENTS: Pure Vegetable Glycerin (PH Balanced), Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Distilled Organic Lavender from Lavender Skies Farm, 
Australian Tea Tree Oil, Bulgarian Lavender, Dandelion Root, Lavender Fragrance
Long lasting 6.5oz bar $7.00    http://herbaltransdermal.com/ 


Lavender Skies is proud to be the lavender supplier for
Herbal Transdermal Soaps http://www.LavenderSkiesVA.com

Lavender Skies Insect Repellent

About Our Products

Lavender Skies, is an all natural eco-friendly lavender producer located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Our lavender products are handmade, home- grown.
We design to inspire consumers to live a life of well being in today's world.
Our focus is on reducing, reusing, recycling making minimal impact on the environment. 

About Lavender Skies

The Cusimano’s agricultural story started in 1837, Originally from Spain and Italy. 

Seven generations later in New York, 

proprietor Maryann Cusimano wanted more out of life.

Her long over due dream to continue the family’s tradition of farming became a reality.

In 2002 the city dweller became a country lavender farmer.

Her son Yohannes joined the farm  as the operations manager.

The tradition now continues with the next generation.

Lavender Skies operates on nine lush sustainable acres, producing seven varieties  of Lavender and Helichrysum for wholesale and private label enterprises.      

www.lavenderskiesva.com