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Liberty Hosta: Bold Two-Tone Leaves for the Shade Garden
A large blue-green hosta with wide yellow-to-cream margins for shady beds, the cool, moist counterpart to a sunny lavender planting.
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Lily of the Valley: Sweet Spring Bells for Shady Corners
An old-fashioned shade groundcover with intensely sweet white bells in May, best on the cool, moist side of a garden planned around lavender.
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Lion King Japanese Iris: Dinner-Plate Blooms for Wet Ground
A tall Japanese iris with ruffled 7 to 8 inch purple-and-white blooms for the damp spots in your yard that lavender would never tolerate.
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Lip Gloss Dianthus: Magenta Pinks with a White Halo
A low, clove-scented dianthus with magenta-pink flowers ringed in white that loves lavender's sun and lean soil and reblooms in early fall.
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Little Grapette Daylily: A Miniature That Echoes Lavender
A classic miniature daylily with 2-inch grape-purple flowers and green throats that fits neatly along the front of a sunny lavender bed.
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Little Miss Sunshine Stonecrop: A Glossy Mat at Lavender's Feet
A low, glossy dark green sedum mat that covers itself in bright yellow stars in early summer and thrives in the same hot, dry ground as lavender.
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Lone Star Hosta: Gold-Rimmed Leaves for Bright Shade
A wide, easy hosta with green leaves traced in vivid gold, made for filtered shade on the cool side of a garden that also grows lavender.
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Love Story Hosta: Creamy Centers and Showy White Flowers
A ruffled hosta with creamy white leaf centers and unusually showy white flowers for shady walkways, far from lavender's sunny bed.
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Lucerne Blue-Eyed Grass: Little Blue Stars Along the Path
A tidy, grassy clump in the iris family with purplish-blue star flowers in late spring, best along a watered path near your lavender.
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Lucifer Crocosmia: Flame-Red Sprays Behind the Lavender
One of the hardiest crocosmias, with flame-red arching sprays from midsummer that hummingbirds love and that blaze behind purple lavender.
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Luminary® Backlight Garden Phlox: Pure White for Evening Glow
A tidy, mildew-resistant white garden phlox that glows at dusk and takes over the summer show next door as lavender's first bloom winds down.
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Luminary® Opalescence Phlox: Soft Pink Over Very Dark Leaves
A light pink, dark-eyed garden phlox with some of the darkest leaves of any phlox and standout mildew resistance for borders beside lavender.
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Luminary® Pink Lightning Phlox: Big Pink Flowers, Starburst Eyes
A tall focal-point phlox with extra-large true pink flowers and white starburst centers, clean leaves into September and great cut stems.
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Luminary® Prismatic Pink Phlox: Bubblegum Pink with a Lilac Cast
Full heads of bubblegum-pink, dark-eyed flowers with a lilac cast that harmonize with lavender from a richer bed right next door.
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Luminary® Sunset Coral Phlox: A Warm Coral Twist on Garden Phlox
A coral-pink garden phlox with an orange tint, an uncommon warm color that makes a lively contrast with cool purple lavender nearby.
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Luminary® Ultraviolet Phlox: Deep Violet for a Rich Border
One of the darkest garden phlox, with magenta-violet heads on dark stems and bronze-flushed leaves, for a rich border beside lavender.
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Macarena Ice Plant: An Orange Carpet at Lavender's Base
A low, evergreen succulent mat that nearly disappears under bright orange, red-eyed daisies in late spring, made for hot, gravelly lavender beds.
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Mad About You™ Mix Mangave: Spotted Succulents for Summer Pots
An assortment of compact, spotted mangave rosettes for sunny pots among your lavender in summer, moved to a bright window before frost.
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Magenta Sprite Creeping Phlox: Spring Stars Before the Lavender
A neat, non-running spring phlox with vivid magenta stars in May that edges lavender beds weeks before the lavender blooms.
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Magnus Purple Coneflower: The Classic Partner After Lavender
The classic rose-pink coneflower that blooms right after lavender in the same sunny, well-drained bed and feeds finches into winter.
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Mahogany Monster Coral Bells: Big Glossy Leaves for Shade
A hefty coral bells with glossy mahogany leaves up to 6 inches across for the shadier, better-watered end of a garden near lavender.
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Mango Mimosa Red Hot Poker: Copper Torches Behind Lavender
An early, reblooming red hot poker with copper-orange torches from dark buds that rise behind lavender in the same sunny, lean, sharp-draining bed.
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Mango Tango Hummingbird Mint: Peach and Rose Spikes Up Front
A compact hummingbird mint with peach-to-orange flowers over rose calyxes that blooms from July into fall at the front of a lavender border.
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Maraschino Dianthus: Cherry-Red Doubles Over Silver Leaves
Fluffy, fringed cherry-red doubles over spiky silver-blue foliage that echoes lavender's gray leaves along a sunny, well-drained edge.
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