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Vulcan Hosta: A Bright White Center That Holds Up All Summer
A vigorous hosta with glowing white centers and dark green edges that resists summer browning, perfect for brightening deep shade.
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Walker's Low Catmint: Lavender's Most Reliable Garden Partner
The classic catmint, with billowing blue-violet flowers over gray-green leaves, wants the same sun and lean soil as lavender.
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Watermelon Ruffles Hardy Hibiscus: Frilly Magenta for Moist Sun
A rounded hardy hibiscus with 7-inch ruffled magenta pink flowers, best in a watered border or rain garden within view of lavender.
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Watermelon Sugar Coneflower: Double Pink Pompoms Beside Lavender
A fully double coneflower with big magenta-to-pink pompoms that shares lavender's sunny, well-drained bed and cuts beautifully.
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Waterslide Hosta: Rippling Blue Leaves Like Splashing Water
A medium blue hosta with thick, heavily rippled leaves that brings a splash of cool color to the shady beds away from your lavender.
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Web Designer Spiderwort: Big Blue Triangles That Last into Fall
A lush spiderwort with some of the largest clear blue flowers in its group, ideal for a moist border or rain garden near lavender.
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Webmaster Spiderwort: Airbrushed Purple Flowers for Damp Spots
A compact spiderwort with large purple-to-lilac flowers over blue-green leaves, at home in the moist border beside your lavender beds.
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Wedding Crasher Lenten Rose: Speckled Pink Doubles in Early Spring
A double pink hellebore freckled with raspberry spots that blooms in early spring in shade, months before your lavender wakes up.
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Wheee! Hosta: Extreme Cream Ruffles from Leaf Tip to Crown
A playful hosta with wildly ruffled cream edges and purple scapes, a fun shade accent for beds well away from your sunny lavender.
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Whipped Cream Dianthus: Clove-Scented White Edging for Lavender
A low, fragrant dianthus with double white flowers and blue-green foliage that edges a sunny lavender bed with crisp, clean color.
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White Carolina Pineberry: The Pale Strawberry That Tastes Tropical
A white-fruited strawberry hybrid with red seeds and a pineapple-like sweetness, a garden conversation piece near your lavender.
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White Diamonds Fernleaf Bleeding Heart: A Sun-Tolerant White Heart
A sun-tolerant alpine bleeding heart with white hearts from late spring into fall over lacy blue-green leaves, at home near lavender.
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White Profusion Salvia: Clean White Spires That Rebloom All Summer
A dense, reblooming white salvia that shares lavender's sunny, lean soil and gives its purple spikes a crisp white counterpoint.
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White Wands Spike Speedwell: Long-Blooming White for Midsummer
A compact, glossy-leaved speedwell with clean white spikes that reblooms into September, echoing lavender's shape at the bed's edge.
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Whitecaps Stokes' Aster: Fringed White Discs for Late Summer
A dense, heat-loving Stokes' aster covered in fringed near-white flowers from midsummer into fall, carrying lavender's cool theme on.
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Whoops-a-Daisy Shasta Daisy: A Ball of White Daisies by Lavender
A dense, ball-shaped Shasta daisy hidden under big white flowers in early summer, a classic cottage partner for blooming lavender.
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Wide Brim Hosta: A Time-Tested Classic That Takes Some Sun
A dependable hosta with buttery yellow borders that handles more sun than most, a fit for the part-shade beds beside your lavender.
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Wigging Out Mangave: A Tousled Summer Pot Among the Lavender
A cascading, cream-edged mangave that loves lavender's sun and sharp drainage, grown in a pot outdoors for summer and indoors for winter.
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Wiggles and Squiggles Hosta: Wavy Yellow Ribbons for Edging
A low, wide hosta of long, wavy yellow leaves that edges shady paths with bright texture, far from the hot, dry ground lavender needs.
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Wild Imagination Hosta: A Big Blue Swirl of Twisting Ribbons
An unusually large strap-leaved blue hosta whose twisting leaves make a swirling focal point in shade, far from the lavender beds.
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Wild Rose Coral Bells: Rosy Purple Leaves with Charcoal Veins
Bright rosy purple coral bells with dark veins and pink flower wands, suited to the shadier, better-watered end of a lavender bed.
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Wildberry Coral Bells: Glossy, Saturated Purple to Echo Lavender
Some of the most intense, glossy purple leaves in coral bells, a lasting echo of lavender's color where there is afternoon shade.
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Wind beneath My Wings Hosta: A Giant Blue Mound for the Shady Side
A huge, ruffled blue hosta for deep shade, best planted on the cool side of the yard while your lavender takes the sun.
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Wineberry Candy Daylily: Peach Blooms with a Wine Eye for Sunny Beds
A fragrant early-midseason daylily with soft peach petals and a wine-purple eye that grows happily in lavender's sunny, well-drained ground.
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