1.   Although lavender blooms in the spring and summer, has fall is the perfect time to plant lavender to get that amethyst beauty and heady scent by next spring.

2.   Also called Mexican lilac, the bushy plant produces lavender blooms that resemble lilacs.

3.   Society garlic, which produces lavender blooms spring through frost on long, slender stems, is edible and has a garlic or onion taste.

4.   They produce flat, iridescent lavender blooms all summer.

5.   This perennial, as you may know, has grasslike foliage, green or variegated, and produces lavender blooms atop slender stems for months.