The Making of a Lavender Garden One plant we've always admired is Lavender. We removed a few trees to bring in more light to the area. Right now the area goes from full sun to partial shade during the day.
Lavender requires VERY GOOD drainage in the soil.
The disease that attacks it the most is root rot. We then selected around 5 varieties of Lavender and placed them around the bed. The tallest being in the middle and working our way out to the edge. The biggest killer of lavender. I live in the soggy Pacific N.W., where you'd think lavender would reject all the mossy, wet conditions we constatly live in.