Italian lavender is great for shrub borders, cottage gardens, rockeries, and hedges! Varieties of Italian lavender: Leucantha white flowers , Wine mauve-violet flowers. This is a popular type of hybrid lavender that marries the cold tolerance of English lavender with the heat tolerance of Portuguese lavender.
Lavandula x intermedia has highly fragrant flowers that range from dark purple to white. It blooms from mid to late summer. Lavandin prefers more dry conditions, and plenty of sun. You can layer some gravel around to help the soil dry faster. This type of lavender will bloom in summer, and grow up to half a metre tall.
Lavandins are great for hedges and other borders, herb gardens, and even rock gardens. Lavender needs good air circulation, but make sure to keep the flower heads out of strong winds. This makes the plant good for rock gardens, groundcover, and fence borders. You can grow lavender from seed, or you can propagate lavender from cuttings. Pruning lavender is especially important to maintain its health and appearance, and help it withstand natural elements.
Jamie is an Australian horticulturalist and landscape designer. An especially floriferous variety, 'Hidcote Giant' is known for its long spikes of medium blue-violet flowers in midsummer and gray-green foliage. Its flower stems are extra long, making this selection good for cut flowers and for use in projects such as lavender wands. These nectar-rich flowers make a wonderful addition to a pollinator garden.
Do you love the scent of lavender but want to add an additional plant style to your fragrant garden? Spanish lavender varieties offer a totally different look than their cousins. The flower heads are often short and topped with attractive bracts that look like large petals. Spanish lavenders love hot weather and can't withstand cold temperatures. Add these to your container gardens for a splash of texture. This lively lavender displays cone-shape clusters of buds that open to small, bright purple flowers topped with showy white bracts that mature to light pink.
The distinctive look of its flowers and its highly aromatic silvery foliage make it a wonderful addition to the garden. After its summer blooms peak, prune it back to ensure shorter and sturdier flower stems for the future.
Fragrant, shrubby 'Van Gogh' bears soft lavender-violet flowers topped by greenish-white bracts. The effect looks a bit like cute miniature pineapples. This variety produces bright green, linear, aromatic leaves that are densely covered in hairs, giving it a woolly appearance. Add this plant to a garden border or your favorite container to attract both bees and butterflies to your yard.
An eye-catching prolific bloomer, 'Curly Top' stands out from the crowd with its clusters of deep purple flowers topped by ruffled, curly lavender bracts that bloom almost continually during the growing season. Each bloom sits atop six-inch stems. Prune this plant regularly to maintain its shape and to encourage its abundant flowering.
This pretty Spanish lavender variety supplies a steady crop of rich purple flowers on spikes topped by showy purple bracts. The gray-green foliage accents the blooms nicely. If you're in a colder climate, you can still enjoy this plant by growing it in a container in the summer and moving it to a sheltered location during the winter. You may see French lavender grown more as an ornamental plant than an herb.
It doesn't emit the traditional fragrance that English lavenders and lavandins have. Its scent is more like camphor. Still, it is a lovely plant with clusters of purple flowers and furry, gray-green toothed leaves. It blooms all summer and fall and can bloom almost all year indoors if you have a bright window getting at least six hours of sun a day. Unlike other lavenders, the fragrance of fernleaf lavender's foliage and flowers is lemony, with an earthy undertone. Usually grown as an annual , it features narrow spikes of fragrant bluish-purple flowers that will bloom until frost.
Has large, fat heads on top of slender stems. They do not produce commercial amounts of essential oils and are regarded as an ornamental variety. Some varieties can be frost sensitive. Types of Lavender. The description of these plants has been written based on numerous outside resources. Read More. Becoming a contributing member of Gardenia is easy and can be done in just a few minutes.
We use cookies on this website, you can read about them here. To use the website as intended please Accept Cookies. Alphabetical Plant Listing. View or Create Collections. How to choose the right Lavender? Lavender Types, Lavender Varieties. Main Lavender Types Lavandula angustifolia , also called True Lavender or Common Lavender has long been cultivated for its high quality lavender oil. Cultivars of this species tend to be compact in habit and have grayish green narrow leaves and relatively short compact flower spikes.
This Lavender type is great for formal or informal edging along walkways, raised wall beds, rock gardens, herb gardens and in mass plantings. Flowering typically occurs from late spring to mid summer.
Cultivars are slightly less hardy than L. They tolerate hot dry weather better than English Lavenders. Cultivars are commercially grown for their high yield of oil which, however, is inferior in quality to L. This Lavender type is great for hedges, rock gardens, as an accent plant and is also popular in potpourris or as a culinary herb. Flowering typically occurs from mid to late summer generally 1 month later than the angustifolias.
Grown for its silvery aromatic leaves, it is used extensively for essential oils or potpourris. The very distinctive flowers, however, steal the show with their distinctive "ears" sprouting from each flower head. This Lavender loves hot weather, but is more tender Hardiness than other Lavenders.
A beautiful selection for mass plantings or containers. Flowering typically occurs from mid spring to late summer. Not as fragrant as other lavenders but the spikes are very colorful and the foliage particularly attractive.
This Lavender is hardy to zones and generally grows up to 3 ft. Nonstop flowering typically from early summer to fall and nearly all year if given enough light and warmth. With adequate protection, Lavender can even be grown with success in zones
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