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Silver Bullet Hosta: A Thick Blue Dome That Shrugs Off Slugs
A tight, low dome of thick, round, powdery blue leaves that resists slugs and edges the shady side of a garden built around lavender.
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Silver Fox Mangave: A Glowing Silver Star for Lavender Patios
A compact, toothed succulent with a waxy silver glow that loves lavender's sun and drainage, grown in a pot and wintered indoors.
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Silver Gumdrop Coral Bells: Shimmering Leaves, Hot Pink Wands
A compact coral bells with iridescent silver leaves and unusually bright pink flowers for shady pots and beds away from lavender.
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Silver Lining Artemisia: A Wide Silver Cushion That Holds Its Shape
A low, wide artemisia with bright, deeply cut silver leaves that stays tight all season and sets off purple lavender spikes.
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Silver Mound Artemisia: The Classic Silky Edging for Lavender
A small, silky silver pillow of fine, feathery leaves that makes a tidy edging in front of a sunny, well-drained lavender row.
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Silverine Hen and Chicks: Frosted Rosettes for Lavender's Edge
Silvery green rosettes with purple hearts that tuck into gravel, stones and crevices along a sunny, sharply drained lavender bed.
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Singular Sensation Daylily: Big Ruffled Pink Blooms with Gold Edges
A reblooming daylily with 6-inch shell pink flowers, heavy gold ruffles and green throats that pairs gently with lavender in full sun.
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Smoke and Mirrors Coral Bells: Pewter Gray at the Bed's Shady Edge
Smoky pewter gray coral bells with tall rose-pink wands that echo lavender's gray foliage where the bed turns shadier and moister.
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Smoke Signal Little Bluestem: A Native Column That Turns Red in Fall
An upright native grass with blue-green summer blades and scarlet to red-purple fall color that frames lavender in lean, dry soil.
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Smoking Gun Switch Grass: An Airy Tan Haze Behind Late Lavender
A compact, upright switch grass whose big, smoky tan flower clouds add soft movement behind lavender from late summer into winter.
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Snow Leopard Mangave: Spotted Cream-Edged Leaves for Summer Pots
A bold variegated succulent with cream-edged, leopard-spotted leaves that loves lavender's sun and drainage in a pot you bring indoors.
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Snowcap Shasta Daisy: A Compact White Edging for Purple Lavender
A dwarf Shasta daisy that smothers a sturdy 12 to 15 inch mound in white, gold-centered blooms along the front of a lavender bed.
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Snowflake Candytuft: An Evergreen Spring Carpet Before Lavender
An evergreen candytuft that blankets a low mat in pure white spring flowers weeks before lavender blooms, then stays green all year.
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Solar Flare Red Hot Poker: Sunny Yellow Torches Behind Lavender
Tall, solid yellow torches rise behind purple lavender from early summer, drawing hummingbirds and reblooming late into the season.
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Sombrero® Adobe Orange Coneflower: Pumpkin Color Opposite Purple
A compact coneflower so loaded with pumpkin-orange blooms it looks like a solid dome, a vivid complement to lavender in sunny, lean soil.
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Sombrero® Lemon Yellow Improved: Fuller Yellow Coneflowers
A compact, heavily branched coneflower with wide, rich lemon yellow petals and copper cones, a natural sunny partner for lavender.
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Sombrero® Salsa Red Coneflower: Chili-Red Heat for Cool Lavender
Hot orange-red coneflowers with full, overlapping petals that contrast sharply with lavender's cool purple spikes in a sunny bed.
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Sombrero® Sangrita Coneflower: Orange to Brick Red on Dark Leaves
A two-tone coneflower that opens orange and deepens to brick red over very dark leaves, a rich, warm contrast in front of lavender.
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Sound of Music Hosta: A Giant Shade Anchor That Changes Color
A giant, puckered hosta about 5 feet wide whose chartreuse centers turn creamy white by summer, an anchor for shade beds near lavender.
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Sound of My Heart Daylily: Pastel Pink with a Wine Purple Eye
A reblooming daylily with flat, pastel pink flowers, a wide wine purple eye and matching edge that echoes lavender from July into fall.
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South Seas Daylily: Coral-Tangerine Warmth in a Sunny Bed
A vigorous daylily with fragrant coral-tangerine flowers and a reddish band that adds a warm contrast to lavender in full sun.
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Sparkling Sapphires False Indigo: Vivid Blue Right Before Lavender
A compact false indigo with some of the brightest violet blue spikes in its group, blooming just before lavender for a long run of blue.
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Spearmint Coral Bells: Silver-Green Mounds and Two-Tone Pink Wands
A wide, vigorous coral bells with silvery green leaves and long-blooming bicolor pink flowers for a lightly shaded edge near lavender.
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Spiked Punch Dianthus: Clove-Scented Fuchsia on Steel Blue Foliage
Fuchsia pink double pinks with red eyes and a clove-like scent over steel blue foliage, a bright, fragrant edging for sunny lavender beds.
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