Lavender: the best varieties for pots
To enjoy lavender on the balcony or terrace
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Lavender is an essential plant for a balcony or terrace. Indeed, you can create a draining substrate to accommodate it; it is undemanding in terms of watering, and it thrives in full sun and heat. Let’s discuss its aesthetic qualities: it blooms for a long time, delights you with its powerful fragrance reminiscent of summer and holidays, and it is evergreen in winter. All Lavenders can be planted in pots. However, some will be more suitable due to their moderate growth, compact habit, tolerance to pollution or sea spray, and resistance to frost or damp cold.
Discover the varieties of Lavender we have selected for pot planting.
Lavandula angustifolia 'Blue of Gien'
Lavender angustifolia ‘Bleu de Gien’ offers many advantages, which are particularly interesting for pot planting. It is a well-compact variety, measuring 40 cm in all directions. It looks beautiful all year round and maintains its appearance in winter, as its evergreen foliage does not deteriorate. It is quite resistant to the assaults of damp cold. It has a flexible, dense, and upright habit, rounded in shape. It comes alive in summer for three months, from June to August, with a flowering of intense and luminous violet-blue that exudes a captivating fragrance. Its narrow leaves with curled edges are a lovely grey-green colour. The icing on the cake is that it is tolerant of air pollution. Therefore, it is an excellent plant for balconies and urban gardens.
Its compact, spherical clump looks very attractive in a pot; pair it in full sun with some equally undemanding perennial plants and shrubs: Sedums, Wormwoods, Santolines, and Cistus.
The violet-blue spike flowering of Lavandula angustifolia ‘Bleu de Gien’
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Lavender: planting, growing, pruningLavandula angustifolia 'Silbermöwe'
Include a white variety in this selection, very bright, which allows for varied combinations. The Lavandula angustifolia ‘Silbermöwe’ is a dwarf Lavender, making it easy to find a spot for it on a balcony or terrace. Sturdy, rounded, and dense, it reaches 30 cm in all directions at ripeness. Its foliage is silver, bearing fine stems topped with pure white spikes that come to life in mid-summer, in July and August. It exudes a fresh and delicate fragrance. Its scent is more intense and its foliage brighter when planted in full light.
It is a ball of light that you will want to highlight by contrasting it with darker foliage and plants. Consider a few dark, dwarf conifers that you can also plant in pots, such as Chamaecyparis obtusa or Abies koreana, and a Euphorbia polychroma ‘Purpurea’.
The white flowers of Lavandula angustifolia ‘Silbermöwe’
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Lavandula angustifolia 'Rosea'
The Lavandula angustifolia ‘Rosea’ is a variety of pink Lavender, offering flowers in a soft lilac pink. It forms a medium-sized bush, measuring 60 cm in all directions, very compact. With an upright habit on a rounded tuft, its evergreen foliage with narrow leaves is a lovely green colour. From June to August, it is covered in 5 cm flowers of a soft hue, highly fragrant and melliferous.
Plant this lavender in a pot, alongside medium-sized grasses, such as the Stipa tenuifolia, a soft, blonde grass that dances beautifully with the slightest breeze. Add a few pots of more vibrant pink flowers, such as Penstemons or Gaura ‘Siskiyou Pink’.
The soft pink flowers, very delicate, of the variety Lavandula angustifolia ‘Rosea’
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Growing lavender in a potLavandula stoechas 'The Princess'
Lavandula stoechas is also known as Butterfly Lavender due to the petaloid bracts shaped like butterfly wings that crown its spikes. It is an original and attractive species, but somewhat challenging to grow: it suffers at temperatures below -5 °C and prefers acidic soils. Additionally, it is susceptible to fungal diseases related to humidity. Therefore, it is interesting to grow it in pots in humid and cold regions, or if you have alkaline soil.
Lavandula stoechas ‘The Princess’ is a variety with bright pink flowers, featuring a very intense hue, unusual for Butterfly Lavenders. Particularly generous, it blooms for the first time in spring, in April-May, and then in successive waves throughout the summer. It is adorned with narrow, fluffy grey-green foliage, and its flowering is abundant and fragrant. This is a shrub measuring 45 cm in all directions, with dense and compact growth. Its frilly-edged leaves smell of camphor and pine. Protect it from frost in winter if necessary. Note that Butterfly Lavenders dislike summer watering with alkaline water.
Butterfly lavender Lavandula stoechas ‘The Princess’
Lavandula angustifolia 'Dwarf Blue'
Lavandula angustifolia ‘Dwarf Blue’ is also a small variety suitable for pot cultivation, with a dense and compact habit of 40 cm in height and a spread of 60 cm. Its purple-tinged spikes on aromatic silver-grey and green foliage at the base are 8 cm long and highly fragrant.
Pair it with other potted plants on the balcony or terrace. Consider, for example, Evening Primroses for beautiful evening flowering, Daylilies, the lovely blue flowers of Ceratostigma, and small evergreen bushes like the euonymus Euonymus japonicus or E. fortunei.
The dwarf variety Lavandula angustifolia ‘Dwarf Blue’
Lavandula (x)intermedia 'Platinum Blonde'
Let’s finish with a variegated leaf Lavender: the Lavandin ‘Platinum Blonde’. It forms a lovely round and dense cushion of 50 cm in all directions. Like a ball of light, its grey-green leaves are variegated with cream-yellow and silver, and its flowers are a soft light blue, creating an original and vibrant ensemble. Robust, this recent hybrid variety offers a late and long-lasting flowering, lasting until October, even November.
Find it some dark companions to highlight it: for example, a Phormium ‘Dark Delight’, a Sedum ‘Black Knight’, and a Shrubby Sage ‘Blue Note’.
The variegated variety Lavandula ‘Platinum Blonde’
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