Specialty Gardening: companion plant for lavender?, 0 by sempervirens

sempervirens wrote:
You can grow any of the Mediterranean herbs with lavender, tricolor Sage or variegated oregano or thyme for example. Chives offer the lovely pink seed heads and the grassy leaves offer a nice contrast.

Irises, particularly the ones with the variegated leaves (lovely season long green and white stripes), the chives are pretty with these also. I also have grown the lavender with sedum "Misty Morn" which also has a green and white variegated leaves and lovely white flowers that form long lasting rusty seed heads, nice winter contrast to the silvery lavender leaves.

Verbena canadensis also works well.

I can't find the photo I have with the irises among the lavender but this photo shows them in a similar hot dry area next to the asphalt. It also shows the lovely pink flowers of the Geum triflorium and another plant that likes it sandy and dry birdsfoot violet.