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 low, evergreen ice plant with raspberry and fuchsia flowers that carpets the hot, gravelly ground around lavender just before it blooms.
Companion Plants
A native-rooted switch grass whose blue-green blades turn deep wine red by late summer, a bold, airy backdrop for a sunny lavender bed.
Companion Plants
A vigorous reblooming daylily in cherry red with a yellow halo that keeps a sunny lavender garden colorful from July into fall.
Companion Plants
A low foamy bells with deeply cut copper-red leaves and tall white spires, best in a moist, shadier bed near your lavender garden.
Companion Plants
A compact red astilbe with scarlet plumes on mahogany stems that lights up the moist, shady side of a garden that also grows lavender.
Companion Plants
A tall, mildew-resistant bee balm with large cherry red heads that keeps hummingbirds and bees busy in a richer bed next to your lavender.
Companion Plants
An easy creeping phlox with deep pinkish-crimson flowers that carpets the edge of a lavender bed in spring, weeks before lavender blooms.
Companion Plants
A full, deep red mangave rosette that turns nearly solid red in strong sun, a striking summer pot to set among silver lavender.
Companion Plants
An award-winning early pink astilbe with full, clear rose plumes in June, made for the moist, shady corners of a lavender grower's yard.
Companion Plants
A bold shade perennial with glossy, rippled leaves up to 13 inches across, grown in moist shade well away from your sunny lavender beds.
Companion Plants
A dense, heat-loving Stokes' aster covered in large periwinkle flowers from midsummer into fall, a natural follow-up to lavender's June show.
Companion Plants
A sturdy Chinese astilbe with 8-inch hot pink plumes in July, a later, tougher choice for the shaded side of a lavender garden.
Companion Plants
A reliable reblooming daylily in light mauve with a wide purple eye and edge, colors that echo lavender in the same sunny bed.
Companion Plants
A tough, long-lived daylily with 6-inch bittersweet orange flowers on 3-foot scapes, a warm, bold backdrop for a row of purple lavender.
Companion Plants
A reblooming red hot poker with red-to-peach torches that rise behind lavender in the same hot sun and sharp, lean drainage.
Companion Plants
A low, creeping perennial chamomile with apple-scented leaves and small white daisies, a classic edging for a sunny lavender and herb garden.
Companion Plants
An early creeping phlox with extra-large rose-pink flowers that cushions the edge of a lavender bed in April, long before lavender blooms.
Companion Plants
A compact bearded penstemon with deep rose tubular flowers that shares lavender's sun and sharp drainage and draws hummingbirds in early summer.
Companion Plants
A hybrid spring phlox with rose-pink star flowers that stays in a neat mound and blooms a little later, a tidy edging for small lavender beds.
Companion Plants
A fragrant evergreen kitchen herb that loves lavender's sun and dry soil all summer, then comes indoors in a pot for the Michigan winter.
Companion Plants
A tidy, ball-shaped hummingbird mint in hot pink and magenta that fits in front of or between lavender plants from midsummer into fall.
Companion Plants
A compact, fragrant rose-pink daylily that blooms off and on from June until frost, a low, long-flowering edge in front of lavender.
Companion Plants
A big, glossy fragrant hosta with sweet white August flowers that takes more sun than most, ideal for a moist bed near your patio.
Companion Plants
A full, bushy hummingbird mint with rosy purple flowers and burgundy calyxes that deepens a lavender planting's color into late summer.
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