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 dense, reblooming white salvia that shares lavender's sunny, lean soil and gives its purple spikes a crisp white counterpoint.
Companion Plants
A compact, glossy-leaved speedwell with clean white spikes that reblooms into September, echoing lavender's shape at the bed's edge.
Companion Plants
A dense, heat-loving Stokes' aster covered in fringed near-white flowers from midsummer into fall, carrying lavender's cool theme on.
Companion Plants
A dense, ball-shaped Shasta daisy hidden under big white flowers in early summer, a classic cottage partner for blooming lavender.
Companion Plants
A dependable hosta with buttery yellow borders that handles more sun than most, a fit for the part-shade beds beside your lavender.
Companion Plants
A cascading, cream-edged mangave that loves lavender's sun and sharp drainage, grown in a pot outdoors for summer and indoors for winter.
Companion Plants
A low, wide hosta of long, wavy yellow leaves that edges shady paths with bright texture, far from the hot, dry ground lavender needs.
Companion Plants
An unusually large strap-leaved blue hosta whose twisting leaves make a swirling focal point in shade, far from the lavender beds.
Companion Plants
Bright rosy purple coral bells with dark veins and pink flower wands, suited to the shadier, better-watered end of a lavender bed.
Companion Plants
Some of the most intense, glossy purple leaves in coral bells, a lasting echo of lavender's color where there is afternoon shade.
Companion Plants
A huge, ruffled blue hosta for deep shade, best planted on the cool side of the yard while your lavender takes the sun.
Companion Plants
A fragrant early-midseason daylily with soft peach petals and a wine-purple eye that grows happily in lavender's sunny, well-drained ground.
Companion Plants
An upright stonecrop with wine-purple leaves and pale pink domes that keeps a lavender bed colorful well after harvest.
Companion Plants
A ruffled yellow Siberian iris that opens in June just before lavender, best placed in a moister border or rain garden nearby.
Companion Plants
An early, compact speedwell with chunky violet-blue spikes that echoes lavender's shape and opens just ahead of the main bloom.
Companion Plants
A fast-growing hosta with wavy blue-green leaves and wide gold edges, made for edging and mass planting in the shade garden.
Companion Plants
A massive blue-green hosta with apple-green edges that needs years and a lot of room, perfect for the shady corner of a lavender lover's yard.
Companion Plants
A low, tough sedum that covers itself in bright yellow stars from midsummer and edges a hot, dry lavender bed beautifully.
Companion Plants
A long-blooming yellow coneflower that fades to cream, showing two shades at once next to lavender in a sunny, well-drained bed.
Companion Plants
A long-lived threadleaf coreopsis with golden daisies and needle-fine leaves that thrives in the same lean, sunny soil as lavender.
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