Really excellent form of Spanish lavender with foliage that is just about as silvery as it gets on a lavender, with deep purple flowers with light purple bracts on the top. Drought tolerant and maintains a much tighter form if given well drained mineral soil and zero summer water.
Very cool Spanish Lavender that has the most amazing two-tone flowers, with the lower flower head being purple and the top flower bracts a bright white. Adds a very nice color and texture to the garden and is an easy one to grow.
Really great foliage texture on this one! A selection by Goodwin Creek Gardens in Williams, Oregon, Goodwin Creek has beautiful grey leaves with toothed edges that offer a nice variation on the typical lavenders seen in the landscape. Easy to grow and long lived if provided full sun and sharp drainage, and said to even handle the weather of the humid southeast!
A bright addition to the lavender landscape, Platinum Blonde has a lovely yellow edge variegation that causes the whole plant to look like it’s glowing. When in bloom the lavender flower spikes contrast beautifully with the foliage.
A unique and seldom seen species of lavender, native to Portugal, it stands out from the more commonly seen lavender varieties with its yellow-green fuzzy foliage, unique yellowish flowers and aroma that is somewhere between a lavender and a rosemary but also unique to itself. Yellow lavender is also prized for cooking and grilling with a flavor that is more of a nice spice like rosemary than the floral aromas most people associate with the genus. Drought tolerant and loving of well-draining soils in full sun.
Maybe a bit oxymoronic to have a lavender that’s not…lavender colored, but the White Grosso Lavender makes for a nice color change and when planted next to purple flowered lavenders it actually makes them look more lavender due to the contrast!
This French lavender is an elegantly beautiful and ruggedly tough perennial, flourishing 5” long flower spikes of deep blue and purple hues complimented by lush silvery-green foliage. Phenomenal can resist both extremely hot humid summers, and harsh cold winters.
Our favorite lavender for foliage, Fred Boutin Lavender features especially silvery foliage that really glows at the edge of a border or along a path where it will guide your way with reflected light at night. Flower spikes are especially long on Fred and the flowers bloom for a very long period. Not the most fragrant of lavenders, but the foliage can’t be beat!
Grosso Lavender is one of the most popular French hybrids due to its incredible vigor, abundance of flower spikes, and sheer size of the flowers. Also known as the “fat lavender” due to its exceptionally large flower spikes, Grosso is valued for its intense fragrance and is especially valuable in making essential oils, soaps and lotions.
Ana Luisa Lavender is unique for its silver-gray foliage that appears nearly white at times! Fragrant bluish-purple flowers on long tapered spikes in summer stand out in great contrast to the bright foliage.
