Companion Plants
Stella de Oro Daylily: The Gold Edging That Keeps Blooming
The classic compact gold daylily, blooming from early summer into fall as a cheerful, low edging in front of a sunny lavender bed.
Lavender Field Notes
A note for every lavender plant, companion plant and farm-made product: how to use it, care for it and get the most from it.

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Companion Plants
The classic compact gold daylily, blooming from early summer into fall as a cheerful, low edging in front of a sunny lavender bed.
Companion Plants
A compact lemon yellow daylily that reblooms from midsummer on, making a bright, low border in front of lavender in full sun.
Companion Plants
Huge silver heart-shaped leaves and spring sprays of sky blue flowers for the shady, moist corners of a garden plan built around lavender.
Companion Plants
A tender herb with naturally sweet leaves for tea and drinks that grows happily in a sunny pot or herb bed beside your lavender.
Companion Plants
Near-black stems, silver-veined dark leaves and pale periwinkle stars make this wide native blue star a striking backdrop for lavender.
Companion Plants
Large mauve daylily flowers with a deep eggplant eye and picotee edge that echo lavender's purple in the same sunny, well-drained bed.
Companion Plants
An award-winning pink daylily with a raspberry red eye and ruffled edges that pairs softly with lavender in full sun and good drainage.
Companion Plants
A compact Arkansas-type blue star with threadlike green foliage that softens lavender in summer and turns golden orange in fall.
Companion Plants
One of the few bee balms in lavender-blue, this compact, mildew-resistant plant keeps the purple-blue color and the bees going near your lavender.
Companion Plants
A broad, hot pink bee balm that fills its space without running wild, bringing midsummer color and bees to the bed beside your lavender.
Companion Plants
Compact cherry-red bee balm that draws hummingbirds through midsummer and adds a bold red note to the bed beside your lavender.
Companion Plants
A tight, compact magenta bee balm that stays put in containers and borders, carrying purple-toned summer color beside your lavender.
Companion Plants
One of the shortest Sugar Buzz bee balms, so thick with pastel pink heads that the leaves vanish, for the front of a bed near lavender.
Companion Plants
Deep raspberry-purple bee balm over nearly black-green foliage, with extra flower heads that stretch the show near your lavender.
Companion Plants
A tight, glossy mound of ruffled black-purple leaves that makes a dramatic low edging at the shadier, moister end of a lavender bed.
Companion Plants
A huge chartreuse-to-gold hosta that takes more sun than most, best grown in its own rich, moist bed rather than beside dry lavender.
Companion Plants
A tall, free-flowering pink Peruvian lily for a sunny cutting bed near lavender, with long-lasting stems for bouquets from July to frost.
Companion Plants
Peach and sunny yellow Peruvian lily flowers on dark, purple-black tinged stems, blooming from July to frost in a sunny bed or patio pot.
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A vigorous variegated hardy hibiscus with 7-inch magenta flowers in late summer, for a moist, sunny bed near your lavender rather than in it.
Companion Plants
A tall scarlet Peruvian lily with a golden yellow flare that keeps flowering through hot summers, a bold focal point near lavender.
Companion Plants
A full, shrub-sized hardy hibiscus with 7 to 8 inch hot cerise flowers along the whole stem, for a moist, sunny bed within view of lavender.
Companion Plants
A compact perennial baby's breath that shares lavender's sun and lean soil and wraps purple spikes in a cloud of tiny white flowers.
Companion Plants
A bold, shrub-sized gold foliage perennial for moist part shade, lighting up the woodland side of a garden that also grows lavender.
Companion Plants
A miniature, brilliant yellow mouse-ears hosta with lavender bells, made for shade troughs and the cool, moist corners away from lavender.
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