Phenomenal Lavender

Lavandula x intermedia ‘Niko’ PP #24,193

Plant Details

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

Plant Type: Perennial Herb

Height at Maturity: 24-30″

Width at Maturity: 24-30″
Spacing: 18-20″ for mass plantings or solid borders; 4′ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Mounding

Growth Rate: Moderate

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

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well-drained lightly moist to dry

Soil pH: 6.7 – 7.5 (Neutral to Slightly Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Butterflies, Visual Attention, Sensory Appeal

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

Description

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.

Landscape & Garden Uses

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

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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.

Growing Preferences

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.

Helpful Articles

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

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How To Grow Herbs Indoors

Herb Garden Design Ideas & Tips

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These lavender plants are amazing and are thriving. Super fast shipping. Plants arrived in perfect condition too. A+++——————————————————Thanks for the kind words and awesome review! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

I received my two lavender plants and was totally happy. They were packaged well and arrived in perfect condition. They were even still moist!! I have planted them in the yard and they are doing very well. We’ll see if they can survive the winter. If so, I’ll be back to buy more! Thank you for the quality product and shipping technique.——————————-Hi Christine, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the Phenomenal Lavender. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review!
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens