I am planing to plant sedums between these small lavender plants. I already have them and I read that they are good companion plants for lavenders. I am just not sure if they will look good intercalated. What do you guys think?
by Decent_Database8925
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There are a lot of different sedums. Lavender will be grey/green for most of the year, so maybe a contrast such as a reddish sedum might work. The larger ones such as autumn joy might do better set back a bit deeper into the bed as there won’t likely be enough spacing otherwise. A ground cover sedum might work well if you want them between the lavender. That way when the lavender flowers it’s the highest and most visible.
I would say sedums are a good choice for a dry hot bed like this one. You might like to mix it up- a taller one with autumn interest (eg autumn joy) at the back, maybe interspersed with a purple leaves one, then ground cover at the front. I like to vary leaf colour and also hide soil.
Yes but I would say both plants will get onto conflict very quickly. Both plants love to expand, but sedums can push lavenders aside with their thick stems and thick leaves. Starving them off light encouraging woody stems..
Lavender will grow a lot – you probably don’t need anything between them.
No helpful advice – just came to say that I love the shape of the flower bed & that you’ve livened up the paved driveway street scenes with it. Looks great
If all goes well in terms of growth you could remove every other lavender and they’d still be pressed up against each other, they get pretty big. I don’t think there’s any scope to plant anything between them.
Sedum spectabile cultivars would for sure, id allow a 3′ radius for each one tho just so they don’t grow into each other too much