Lavender
Lavanda · Lavande
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Height
- medium (40–100 cm)
- Shape
- compact
- Roots
- medium depth
- Sun
- full sun
- Season
- perennial
- Grows in
- summer or winter beds
Jobs in the bed
- Brings pollinatorsFlowers that feed bees and butterflies. Useful next to crops that need pollinating.
- Feeds beneficial insectsSmall open flowers feed hoverflies, parasitic wasps and lacewings, which eat aphids and caterpillars.
Rotation
Do not return Lamiaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years. Same family:
✿ Benefit
Strong pollinator magnet (bees, butterflies); like other flowering aromatic herbs, it supports the natural enemies of cabbage pests
Wants dry, sunny spots — don't overwater
✓ Place near
✗ Keep apart
None listed.