My Favorites! My Top Fives = Five for Five These are my personnel favorites after use and application trials.
Best Lavender for Crafts
- Folgate
- Miss Katherine
- Impress Purple
- Royal Velvet
- Wycoff
Best Lavenders for Cooking
- Folgate
- Buena Vista
- Miss Katherine
- Royal Velvet
- Provence
Best Lavender for Essential Oil & Hydrosol
- True Grosso
- Maillette
- Folgate
- Impress Purple
- Hidcote Pink
Best Lavender to Landscape with in the Rocky Mountains and High Dessert Country – top ten
- Lavandula x intermedia ‘Gros Bleu’
- Lavandula x intermedia ‘Edelweiss’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Buena Vista’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Tuckers Early’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Coconut Ice’
- Lavaandula x chaytorae ‘Ana Luisa’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Folgate’
- Lavandula angustifolia ‘Purple Bouquet’
Best Companion Plants to Lavender – in the landscape-my top five. These bloom at the same time as lavender and are also drought tolerant plants.
Achillea ‘Yarrow’ – yellow ‘moonshine’ low growing; ‘Giant’ tall yellow yarrow
Centranthus ‘Red Jupiters Beard’
Penstemon ‘Nearly Red’
Salvia ‘Sensation Deep Rose’ Pink rose flowers, blooms mid summer
Agastache ‘Rosita’