Whatever your garden style there's always room for some landscaping with lavender. It's equally at home planted in loose drifts in a Mediterranean or cottage garden, and works well clipped into smart geometric designs in modern urban spaces too. It's also the queen of containers and window boxes to dress up the front of the house.
Lavender can easily be worked into your backyard landscaping ideas and has been grown in gardens since late-medieval times. The scented spikes of blue, mauve and purple (and occasionally white) flowers bloom right through summer too. All lavender varieties look great used as repeat planting to divide up or add interest to herb gardens. Lavender itself is actually a herb and is related the mint family which accounts for the fact it slots so beautifully into herb garden designs.
