Highly popular, English Lavender 'Hidcote' is a free flowering variety that is prized by most gardeners for its long-lasting and delightful scent as well as the fashion in which its dark purple flower spikes beautifully contrast with its blue-green evergreen foliage. Hidcote is a perfect choice for low hedges, edging or creating borders. Excellent for crafts and dried flowers as they retain their color. Blooms once in late spring or early summer. May have a second and third flush of flowers during the season if the flowers are cut soon enough.

Coming from New Zealand, this lavender is quite distinctive with its pom-pom flower spikes. Compact and dense, extremely fragrant with intense violet flowers, Lavandula angustifolia 'Lavenite Petite' is a top choice for containers thanks to its short stems and tight foliage. Good for drying. Blooms once in mid to late spring (early to mid-May). Lavenders blooming once may have a second, smaller flush of flowers during the season and maybe a third one if the flowers are cut soon enough.

Very fragrant, English Lavender 'Little Lottie' (also sold as 'Clarmo') is a lovely dwarf Lavender with masses of attractive light pink flower spikes. A Tidy, compact, and charming lavender variety. A top choice for planting in your favorite containers or for culinary uses. Great for rockeries too! Blooms once in late spring or early summer. May have a second and third flush of flowers during the season if the flowers are cut soon enough.

A wonderful variety of English Lavender. 'Melissa Lilac' features such a soft, powdery color that it looks almost edible, like a lilac marshmallow, when it is in bud! Compact and fragrant, its stunning, large flower spikes and broad silvery-green foliage are a delightful sight in the garden. Perfect lavender for edging paths or borders. Blooms once in midsummer. May have a second and third flush of flowers during the season if the flowers are cut soon enough.

Highly fragrant, English Lavender 'Miss Katherine' is without question one of the most exquisite pink lavenders. This very distinctive Lavender presents erect domes of spreading foliage and masses of lovely, deep pink flowers with silvery calyces which shine in the sun. The open, dense, and long-lasting flowers, rise high above the aromatic foliage on long stems which spray elegantly outwards. Long-lasting color, one of the most fragrant pink Lavenders. Blooms once in late spring or early summer. May have a second and third flush of flowers during the season if the flowers are cut soon enough.

A great pick! Compact, and extremely fragrant with rosy purple flowers, Lavender 'Munstead' is very attractive throughout the year. Introduced in 1916 by the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, this small cultivar grows well in containers and is a great choice for hedges or knot gardens. Excellent for potpourris or dried arrangements as it retains its color. Blooms twice starting in late spring or early summer. Lavenders blooming twice are known to have a full second flush of blooms after the flowers of the first bloom have been harvested.

Compact and very floriferous, award-winner Lavandula angustifolia 'Nana Alba' is a wonderful dwarf Lavender variety with attractive snow-white flowers in short spikes atop silvery-green foliage. Typically grows in a compact 12 in. tall (30 cm) bushy dome and spreads up to 20 in. (50 cm). Perfect for containers, white gardens or small gardens. Blooms once in midsummer. May have a second and third flush of flowers during the season if the flowers are cut soon enough.

A lovely pick! Compact, extremely fragrant with upright pale pink flowers, Lavandula angustifolia 'Rosea' (also sold as Jean Davis) is a lovely lavender variety whose blossoms stand out well against the silver-gray foliage. Sweetly and strongly scented, good for culinary purposes and well suited to containers or beds & borders. Excellent for formal knot gardens. Blooms once in late spring or early summer. May have a second and third flush of flowers during the season if the flowers are cut soon enough.

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.

A very attractive form of French Lavender, Lavandula pedunculata subsp. pedunculata features a tall upright habit with ravishing rounded dark plum flower heads topped with long, paler purple bracts and rising elegantly on long stems. Highly aromatic gray-green foliage. Great for mass planting, low hedges or containers. This French Lavender blooms almost continuously from mid-late spring to late summer. In mild climates, this selection can bear flowers nearly all year around.

Compact and beautiful, Lavandula stoechas 'Anouk' features dark plum flower heads topped with long-lasting violet-blue bracts delicately fading to pink as they mature. Highly aromatic silvery foliage. Great for mass planting, low hedges, or containers. This French Lavender blooms almost continuously from mid-late spring to late summer.

A very attractive bicolor Lavender indeed! Lavandula stoechas 'Ballerina' features plump purple flower heads topped with long-lasting white flowers delicately fading to pink and purple as they mature. Highly aromatic silvery foliage. Great for mass planting, low hedges or containers. This French Lavender blooms almost continuously from mid-late spring to late summer.

Quite compact, Lavandula stoechas 'Fathead' features plump round flower heads topped with long-lasting dark purple bracts delicately fading to pink as they mature. This French Lavender blooms almost continuously from mid-late spring to late summer.

A very attractive and unusual bicolor Lavender, Lavandula stoechas 'Kew Red' features plump, bright, deep crimson-pink flower heads topped with pale pink bracts delicately fading to white as they mature. This French Lavender blooms almost continuously from mid-late spring to late summer.

Award-winning Lavandula stoechas 'Pretty Polly' boasts deep purple flower heads topped with long-lasting white bracts adorned with a soft green midrib. This French Lavender blooms almost continuously from mid-late spring to late summer.

Very eye-catching and floriferous, Lavandula stoechas 'Regal Splendour' features plump, rich violet-blue flower heads topped with long pinkish-purple bracts creating a lovely contrast. This French Lavender blooms almost continuously from mid-late spring to late summer.

Lavandula stoechas With Love™ boasts a profusion of plump, cerise-crimson flower heads topped with long candy-pink bracts. Blooming almost continuously from mid-late spring to late summer, it forms a compact mound of highly aromatic silvery foliage. Heat tolerant and disease resistant, it is a wonderful addition to the garden or containers thanks to the very distinctive look of its flowers and its ravishing foliage.

Since not all lavenders are hardy, containers provide the opportunity to grow lavender that would otherwise not be suited to your garden. Place them in a sunny spot (at least 6 hours of sunshine per day), provide the right soil and plenty of drainage, and your Lavender will happily blossom and grow!

While lavender is easy to grow, a few pruning rules have to be followed to get a healthy, beautifully shaped, mounded lavender plant that will last for years.