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
A compact hummingbird mint with apricot flowers in pink calyxes that thrives in lavender's hot, dry ground and blooms long after its first flush.
Companion Plants
A dependable native Stokes' aster with large lavender-blue flowers that bloom later and longer than most, carrying lavender's color into fall.
Companion Plants
An evergreen bergenia with candy-striped white and pink spring flowers on rose stems, a bold edging for a partly shaded path near lavender.
Companion Plants
A tidy, rounded salvia covered in icy blue spikes that shares lavender's sun and lean soil and reblooms through summer after each shearing.
Companion Plants
A compact hardy hibiscus with dark maple-like leaves and 7 to 8-inch white and pink flowers, best in a moist, sunny spot near the lavender.
Companion Plants
A spike speedwell with two-tone pink and white paintbrush spikes in midsummer, a bee favorite for the edge of a lavender bed.
Companion Plants
A tall, vase-shaped false indigo with dark periwinkle spikes that blooms later than most, thriving in the same lean, sunny soil as lavender.
Companion Plants
A big, fast-growing silver mangave with rippled, cinnamon-edged paddle leaves, a bold summer container among the lavender that winters indoors.
Companion Plants
A spider-type daylily with nearly 8-inch deep purplish red flowers and big green throats, a dramatic July backdrop for a lavender bed.
Companion Plants
A compact sneezewort yarrow with loose sprays of tiny double white pom-poms that softens the edges of a sunny lavender planting all summer.
Companion Plants
The classic Japanese painted fern with silvery fronds washed in dusty purple, made for moist shade on the opposite side of the garden from lavender.
Companion Plants
A low, wide catmint with big blue-purple flowers that starts early and blooms from June into September, one of lavender's best partners.
Companion Plants
A hardy hen and chicks with soft gray-green rosettes that shift tone with the seasons, at home in gravel and stone beside sunny lavender.
Companion Plants
A compact ornamental onion with many lilac-purple globes over blue-green leaves, a carefree, color-matched edging for lavender in late summer.
Companion Plants
A compact, burgundy-spotted mangave shaped like a pineapple top, a fun summer container among the lavender that comes indoors before frost.
Companion Plants
A tender, fast-growing sage whose soft leaves smell like pineapple, grown as an annual in Michigan for summer drinks, garnishes and fragrance.
Companion Plants
A mid-height bee balm with huge two-tone fluorescent pink heads and a second flush of bloom, a pollinator anchor for a moist bed near lavender.
Companion Plants
An upright salvia with cotton-candy pink flowers from fuchsia buds that shares lavender's lean, sunny ground and reblooms after shearing.
Companion Plants
A sun-tolerant fernleaf bleeding heart with two-tone pink hearts over lacy blue-green leaves, blooming from late spring into fall.
Companion Plants
A low, silvery foamy bells with wine-red veins and packed pink flower wands, best in a lightly shaded bed near your lavender garden.
Companion Plants
A shrub-sized false indigo with butter-yellow flowers that age to raspberry purple, loving the same lean, sunny ground as lavender.
Companion Plants
Coral bells with metallic pink leaves that deepen to dark berry pink, best in a filtered-shade bed that complements a sunny lavender garden.
Companion Plants
An upright bearded penstemon with rosy pink tubular flowers that opens with the first lavender and thrives on the same sun and sharp drainage.
Companion Plants
A wide, flower-packed speedwell covered in baby-pink spikes from early to midsummer that echoes lavender's shape at the edge of a sunny bed.
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