(upbeat music) (water gurgles) >>The magic of a garden is one that can stimulate all of the senses.

Just imagine the smell of a magnolia on a warm spring evening, hearing the birds or the sound of water in your garden as you're working in your beds and the taste of a fresh summer tomato.

And of course, everyone enjoys that.

Today I'm going to be talking about lavender and preserving that for the smell and the taste.

All you need to do is get a bundle of lavender, which I have already done.

Try to get it first thing in the morning when everything is just nice and fresh.

Bundle it up into a small bundle.

Give this a quick tie.

Takes about two weeks.

Hang it upside down, preferably in a dark place.

That way the sun or other light won't bleach the color and it will hold its color much better.

Now another thing that you can do, and I love doing, especially in the summer, 'cause everybody love their lemonade, but making a lavender lemonade is very easy and all you have to do is make a simple lavender syrup.

So I have two cups of sugar here.

You take your lavender And we're going to just pull off the blooms directly into the sugar.

(lavender ripping) If only you could smell this right now.

I think that's going to be enough.

And what you want to do is just really get in there and mash the lavender up into the sugar.

Okay, next step, water.

And since I used two cups of sugar, I'm going to use four cups of boiling water to dissolve the sugar and take up all of the essence of the lavender.

(spoon rattling) You want to keep stirring until all of the sugar is dissolved.

And then what you want to do is just let the lavender and sugar mixture set for at least a half hour up to maybe a few hours just to give that lavender time to infuse into the sugar mixture.

I have some right here that's already made.

I've already pre-made the lemonade, (lemonade gurgling) that in, and then just give that a swirl.

So I hope everyone would give this a try and I hope that everyone would get out there and feel the magic of your garden and enjoy the season.

(Serome sipping) I wish I could share this with you.