There are many Types of Lavender with notable fragrance and flowers. If you are confused about the Lavender Varieties, this article will help you pick the best one!
Here’s all you need to know about growing Lavender
Best Lavender Varieties
1. Betty’s Blue Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Betty’s Blue’
USDA Zones: 5-9
It features large, deep-violet to blue blooms on dome-like foliage. The flowers emit a sweet fragrance and appear in the middle of summer.
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2. Impress Purple Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula x intermedia ‘Impress Purple’
USDA Zones: 6-8
Impress Purple is popular in bouquets for its bunch of dark purple blooms. The plant blossoms from mid to late summer.
3. French Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula stoechas
USDA Zones: 7-10
The plant displays crimson violet blooms with pale pink petals on top. The flowering season starts from late spring to fall. It is one of the Best Types of Lavender you can grow!
4. Hidcote Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Hidcote’
This popular cultivar sports purple blossoms over contrasting blue-green leaves. It flowers in late spring or early summer.
5. Grosso Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula x intermedia ‘Grosso’
This variety grows up to 2-3 feet tall, with deep purple flowers and narrow aromatic foliage. It can tolerate cold winter as low as 15 F.
6. Ballerina Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula stoechas ‘Ballerina’
USDA Zones: 8-9
It has unique bulbs and produces white blossoms that fade to pink and purple with age. This french lavender flourishes in climates with mild summer and winter.
7. Egyptian Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula multifida
USDA Zones: 8-11
Also popular as fern-leaf lavender due to its furry bipinnate foliage, it spreads intense fragrance—the plant flowers in late spring.
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8. Portuguese Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula latifola
The blooms are more elegant and fragrant than other varieties. The blossoms form small and pale lilac bulbs along the stem. It is popular in culinary and drinks.
9. Fringed Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula dentata
Its flowers last long throughout summer and fall. The plant grows up to 2-3 feet tall and cannot withstand extreme temperatures.
10. Alba Nana Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Alba Nana’
This cultivar has contrasting green leaves that look gorgeous with white blooms. It has won the award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society.
11. Folgate Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Folgate’
Folgate is a classic variety that offers dark purple thick blooms in spring. It won the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit in 2012.
12. Pink Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Rosea’
Rosea offers plenty of pale pink blooms with a soothing fragrance. It grows up to 2-3 feet tall and wide. It is one of the best types of lavender on the list!
13. Royal Velvet Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Royal Velvet’
Royal Velvet displays long-lasting, deep blue to dark violet blooms with a velvety texture. It grows up to 2-3 feet tall and wide.
14. Thumbelina Leigh Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Thumbelina Leigh’
This English lavender variety produces short and thick blooms. The long stems carry flowers with violet purple plumes above the foliage.
15. Little Lottie Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Little Lottie’
‘Little Lottie’ won the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society in 2002. The blooms emerge in two shades; some are white, and a few are magenta.
16. Munstead Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Munstead’
It was introduced in 1916 by Gertrude Jekyll. The flowers bloom in a light rosy purple hue. This variety grows upto 1-2 feet tall and 2-3 feet wide.
17. Regal Splendour Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula stoechas ‘Regal Splendour’
USDA Zones: 8-10
This elegant variety brings a touch of royalty to hedges and borders with its rich violet-blue flower spikes and upright deep magenta bracts.
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18. With Love Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula stoechas ‘With Love’
USDA Zones: 6-10
This classy and elegant lavender variety offers green foliage and short spikes of cerise-purple bracts with white-magenta veins.
19. Pretty Polly Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula stoechas ‘Pretty Polly’
This award-winning variety exhibits long white ears on top of spikes, deep purple blooms, and bright yellow centers. It grows up to 1-2 feet tall and wide.
20. Papillon Lavender
Botanical Name: Lavandula pedunculata ‘Papillon’
USDA Zones: 9-11
This variety shows off small purple spikes with magenta ears on top. It also won the award of Garden Merit of the Royal Horticultural Society in 2002.
21. Provence
Botanical Name: Lavandula × intermedia ‘Provence’
USDA Zones: 5-8
This classy variety offers big flower heads in deep violet color. It is the best choice if you are not living in a dry region.
22. Phenomenal
Botanical Name: Lavandula×Intermedia ‘Phenomenal’
This variety produces deep purple blooms that have an intense fragrance. It grows up to 2-3 feet tall and wide.
23. Fathead
Botanical Name: Lavandula stoechas ‘Fathead’
This evergreen compact Spanish variety boasts plump round flower heads with dark purple-black blooms and fuschia bracts.
24. Vera English
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Vera English’
USDA Zones: 5-10
This narrow-leaved variety offers fragrant purple blooms. It grows 2-3 feet tall and flowers during spring & summer.
25. Blue Cushion
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Blue Cushion’
This distinct Fuschia and blue variety are also popular as ‘cushions’. It offers gray-green leaves and pastel purple blooms.
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26. Pastor’s Pride
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Pastor’s Pride’
It displays medium lilac and cylindrical flowers that have an intense fragrance. This cultivar is cold-hardy and is also deer resistant.
27. SuperBlue
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘SuperBlue’
The plant can withstand drought very well and produces blooms that release a tarty fragrance. What makes it stand out from the rest is its dense flowers.
28. Sensational
Botanical Name: Lavandula x intermedia ‘Sensational’
This hybrid perennial shows off huge dark blue blooms with silver leaves. It grows up to 2-3 feet wide.
29. Celestial Star
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Celestial Star’
This New Zealand native features vivid white blooms. It grows up to 2-4 feet tall and can withstand moderate frosts.
30. Van Gogh
Botanical Name: Lavandula stoechas ‘Van Gogh’
The dark green leaves with blue and pale violet blooms look classy. A soothing fragrance tops all this!
31. Lacy Frills
Botanical Name: Lavandula angustifolia ‘Lacy Frills’
This compact white lavender offers pale white to lilac flowers. It grows up to 2-3 feet tall with a similar spread.
32. Goodwin Creek Grey
Botanical Name: Lavandula ginginsii ‘Goodwin Creek Grey’
USDA Zones: 7-9
It offers silver foliage beneath cone-shaped deep purple blooms. This low-maintenance shrub suits well in small gardens or pots.
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