Roses and foxgloves are good
sources of lavender shades.

Lavender in Your Garden

• Plant breeders haven't yet achieved a true blue rose, but lavender varieties come close. Consider pale 'Sterling Silver', 'Angel Face', and 'Lagerfeld'.
• The globe-shape flowers of onion family members, alliums and chives, span the lavender color spectrum. Try as many as you like.
• Lavender, in both name and hue, combines with silver- and gold-foliage plants to form borders that shimmer in the light.
• On the pinkish side of lavender, mauve's tonal ambiguities pose color-blending opportunities in the garden. Designers recommend using splashes of mauve flowers as dividers between deeper colors in a border.

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