What is the best variety of lavender to plant?
This depends on which type you are looking for and how big you want the plant to be. Here’s a link with a bunch of information on the different lavender plants and their qualities: http://www.mountainvalleygrowers.com/lavendercareandtips.htm Copied from the link above: ” THE NON-ENGLISH LAVENDERS Gardeners in Zones 8 to 10 get a bit of a Lavender bloom head start with the early blooming species which include Spanish, Yellow, Sweet, French, Allardii, Goodwin Creek Gray, and Woolly Lavender. With the exception of Woolly, these Lavenders start blooming early to mid spring. Spanish and Yellow Lavenders finish up after four or five weeks, with the others blooming for a bit longer. All of these do best with a good pruning about four or five weeks into the bloom cycle, discouraging these large Lavender bushes from becoming untidy and encouraging a second sweep of blooms. The variation in fragrance, size,
