USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Perennial Herb

Flower Color:  Vibrant Purple

Flower Size: Small flowers packed on spikes

Flowering Period:  Late Spring to Mid-Summer

Flower Type:  Spikes

Fragrant Flowers:  Yes

Foliage Color:  Silvery-Green

Fragrant Foliage:  Yes!

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Butterflies, Visual Attention, Sensory Appeal

Resistances:  Deer - more info, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Rabbit

Finally, a Lavender plant that stands up to the hot and humid summers in the South to USDA Zone 9b, but also handles the cold as far north as USDA Zone 5a! Beginning in late spring and continuing to mid-summer, loads of fragrant vibrant purple flowers cover the mounds of attractive silvery-green foliage. Phenomenal does not die back in the winter in our gardens and has demonstrated excellent heat and humidity tolerance and insect and disease resistance. Lavender plants don't like wet feet so make sure to choose a well-drained site.

Growing 24 to 30 inches tall and wide, Phenomenal Lavender is ideal for use as an accent, in groupings or mass plantings, or as a low hedge in landscape and perennial borders and herb gardens. Mass plantings are truly breathtaking. It has also done well for us in container gardens, which can be overwintered indoors above Zone 5a. A fine selection for herb gardens, perennial gardens, purple theme gardens, cottage gardens, and rock and fragrance gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  18 to 20 inches apart for mass plantings or solid borders; 4 feet apart for space between plants

Note:  For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Lavender variety is not winter hardy, you'll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Lavender is easy to grow in a moist to somewhat dry well-drained soil of average to low fertility and plenty of sun. Constantly soggy soil or standing water is problematic. If desired, the plant can be cut back by one-third its height after flowering to maintain a fuller plant. For example, if your plant is 30 inches tall you can cut it back to 20 inches tall. 

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, prune, fertilize and water Lavender plants.