Or go for the real deal! Strands of lavender meet their match against scene-stealing yellow-green.

Various textures and colors combine here for a stunning vignette. Even if this design had no color, your eye would still read the various textures, from the long, slender wands of lavender to the threaded blue grass at the base of the Japanese maple tree, with its burgundy, palm-shape leaves. Threadlike golden conifer textures occupy the front of this bed.

Shear lavender after bloom to encourage a bushy habit. Lavender can be a short-lived shrub in the garden, because it has a tendency to become woody on the inside and break. Because lavender doesn't come back from hard regenerative pruning, the best way to keep your lavender plants looking full and bushy is to shear them immediately after bloom.While you never want to cut into bare wood, by shearing off the spent flowers and about a half-inch of foliage, you encourage the plant to sprout new, more compact shoots. Shearing also keeps the plant evenly shaped.To shear, use handheld hedging shears and gently clip off all the spent blooms back to the fluffy mound of foliage beneath. Again, don't prune more than ½ to 1 inch of foliage off, as the lavender won't come back from shearing to bare wood.

Mixing Lavender Into the GardenLavender mixes as well as it masses, so try combining it with other blue-tone plants such as blue fescue, or contrast it with lime- or yellow-foliage evergreens.

Distinguishing traits. Golden breath of heaven is just as easily a bold or subtle garden accent. Its soft texture and low, spreading silhouette fill in planting gaps, complementing plants and gardens of all types. It's the vivid chartreuse foliage that really stands out — the little glimmer that quickly catches the eye. Soft, heather-like stems blow easily in the wind, catching and reflecting any light.

Tree in background

composition and colors

Plants

Layers

Love the mixture of grasses and lavendar

gold lace juniper and lavender, beautiful

yellow and purple combo

The free and breezy feeling

different grass types and purple color

grey and lime green with burgandy

Love the lavender

Color contrast, texture

colors

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Lavender, color contrast/combination

Coleonema

Colors, lavender, bloodgood

Muted colors of foliage

blue grass and lavender. very pretty

Large flower bed.

Love the combination of chartreuse, lavender and blue green

japanese red mable

Chartreuse & purple

beautiful contrasts and colors

grasses

Mixture of textures, color. Could use same plants here.

Colors

landscape

my favorite!

tout

Like color and texture of yellow plant

texture and color

blue yellow texture

golden breath of heavenFlowers attract bees8 to 11Evergreen; flowers in winter and spring

Color mixture

the color combinations

love the yellow and blue contrast

Color scheme

Natural

Yard

Color

Grass under maple. More masses of it. Also colors.

Golden thread juniper

Goldenjuniper

gardens

Painting

plants

Colors

Lavendar, blue oat grass and chartuese plant against lavender

This is what I wish our hillside could look like

Densely planted, subtle color

Hill near road

Color palette

Living room color palette

Breath of heaven and grasses

Add purple with plum tree

Japanese maple and lavender

Textures

Wildness

Golden Cyprus & salvia/lavender

Lavender. For the front

Contrasts in color and texture

Landscape colors!

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color combo

blue fescue with yellow bushes and maple

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texture

Mix of colors/ textures

Purple, Yellow and Green!

alley bar landscaping golden thread juniper

I love the color combination

Gold lace juniper

Lavender

Combination of lavender and grasses

Melange des trois couleur piquant en dessous de l'arbre rouge et mauve et jaune bel arrangementMELEZE CONIFERE PREFERE murier pleureur prunier

Backyard Meadow

Colors

Like the purple ,green,yellow together

“Red maple tree + Blue oat grass + Lavender + Golden thread juniper” “Various - Red maple tree + Blue oat grass + Lavender + Golden thread juniper”” “Lavender mixes as well as it masses, so try combining it with other blue-tone plants such as blue fescue, or contrast it with lime- or yellow-foliage evergreens.”

Natural landscape

Lavendar with contrasting lime foliage

the grass!

grasses

värit

Landscaping

looks cool love the colors

Garden

Combination of textures is good

love the contrasts in color and texture

COLOR palette

colors

Large feature areas

The Japanese maple and all the different colors and textures

Love

Color, texture

Different textures

Texture plants

colors xeriscape

Looks like a typical Seattle garden - Japanese maple paired with lavender - showing just how encompassing our climate is!

Great colors and textures.

color

Love the pop of chartreuse and texture of golden breath of heaven in this planting. Golden breath of heavens soft texture and low, spreading silhouette fill in planting gaps, complementing plants and gardens of all types.

soft

shrub

Grasses

layers of color with tree in the middle. great for side yard

Yes!

Color combination of plants

Lavender

cool combo

Lav mixed with blue oat grass

Flower bed

Exterior

plant combos

Great color/texture combo.

Lavender bush

yellow to play off the siding

Garden colors--yellow, purple and green

Like the yellow plant

Purple Outdoor

Landscape

nice combination of colors

Landscaping

Bloodgood maple

texture and color

The juniper. Coleonoma "sunset gold"

Lavende, japanese maple, grass

Grasses and lavender

garden

I love the various types of plants and the way their patterns intersect.

Fascinating landscaping example.

Love

Plantimg

Colors

Love, love, love these colors

Outdoor

Soft delicate...grasses breath of heaven lavender

texture & color are amazing

Lavendar

Non structured

Color

I like lavender with ornamental grasses.

Pretty

plantas

Lavender

Great foliage with Japanese maple

Edge of property plantings

Common names: Golden breath of heaven, diosma, confetti bush USDA zones: 8 to 11; tolerant to 20 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit (find your zone) Water requirement: Medium Light requirement: Full sun to light shade Mature size: 2 to 4 feet tall and 4 to 6 feet wide

color/ texture

very soft textures

Colors and textures make an interesting mix

Pretty

Landscapers from walnut creek

Nice contrast with yellow

גינה יפה 1

Color combo

ground covers 2

Sunset Gold

landscape

Lavender for garden

Landscape

great colors for outdoor

Nice range of textures and color

Lavender outside sunroom windows

great textures

Nice.

plant combo

love the mixture of greens and purple (in our case, Mexican sage)

color

Gardening

Deer resistant and great pop of color

plants

I love this mix of textures an colors - could we do something similar in the front?

grass in background

Just cool

texture and color combination of plants

golden breath of heaven

Lovely...

Yellow plant

Botanical name: Coleonema pulchellum 'Sunset Gold' (syn. Coleonema pulchrum ‘Sunset Gold’) Common names: Golden breath of heaven, diosma, confetti bush WITH LAVENDER

natural

plant for qc

landscape

plants

Common names: Golden breath of heaven, diosma, confetti bush USDA zones: 8 to 11; tolerant to 20 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit (find your zone) Water requirement: Medium Light requirement: Full sun to light shade Mature size: 2 to 4 feet tall and 4 to 6 feet wide

Yard

Idea for west wall

Breath of Heaven landscape

golden breath of heaven with lavendar or russian sage

Distinguishing traits. Golden breath of heaven is just as easily a bold or subtle garden accent. Its soft texture and low, spreading silhouette fill in planting gaps, complementing plants and gardens of all types. It's the vivid chartreuse foliage that really stands out — the little glimmer that quickly catches the eye. Soft, heather-like stems blow easily in the wind, catching and reflecting any light.