Landscaping with Lavender

* Lavender Intro * Pink Lavender * White Lavender *

* Lavender in Difficult Areas *

Lavender and a mound of creeping white thyme link the lawn to the rhododendron beds with a contrast in texture and contour.

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The south side if a house is about the worst place to plant a rhododendron or its relatives. Direct and reflected heat, dry soil under the eaves, and leaching alkalinity from the foundation all conspire against the ericacious plants. Lavenders, however, thrive under these conditions, adding rich color where you would expect life to be parched.

 

Lavender makes a colorful transition between the dry and sterile car turnaround and the vegetable boxes. Even here, we mounded the ground six inches to give the lavender the drainage they needed. Their other needs include full sun, bone meal, and two prunings a year (after flowering and again in March.)