A favorite of many gardeners: very small with a compact, rounded habit, two-tone flowers, and a long blooming season! Strongly fragrant and repeat flowering, English Lavender 'Thumbelina Leigh' features profuse violet-blue, plump flower spikes that bloom continuously from late spring to mid-summer. Its compact growth habit and short spikes make it a beautiful candidate for containers. Blooms once in early summer. May experience a second and third flush of flowers during the season if the flowers are cut soon enough.

Lamb's Ears (Stachys byzantina) is a wonderful evergreen perennial, mostly grown for its rich rosettes of showy, velvety, silvery tongue-shaped leaves, resembling lamb's ears and bringing interest to the border. Pink-purple flower spikes appear in late spring or early summer. Their fuzzy flowers add textural interest, but cutting them off promotes foliage growth and improves the plant's vigor.

Santolina pinnata subsp. nepolitana (Green Santolina), a favorite of Mediterranean gardens, is a beautiful evergreen shrub noted for its attractive foliage, profuse midsummer show of long-stalked, button-like bright yellow flowers. Aromatic if bruised, this compact variety of Santolina features thinner, pinnate, gray-green leaves that have a more feathery look, a finer texture and more graceful demeanor than Santolina chamaecyparissus.