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Have you cut your lavender back yet? Now the flower heads have gone gray it’s time to cut back (to the correct length)

I am a green fingered gardener, who currently is studying a horticulture degree. Looking for work to help with my course. Happy to come to cut and bunch with string your lavender for £7.

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Peace and plants.

Bianca.

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Sorry to butt in, but just to say, don't cut into the woody bit at the bottom (if your lavender is quite old), because it won't produce new shoots from there.

 

That’s why Sue in brackets “the correct length” on my post!

 

Sorry if I have over-clarified, but I thought people who weren't familiar with how to treat lavender would not know what "the correct length" was!


Profuse apologies if I am wrong.


I was trying to be helpful, as I know from experience that it is upsetting if you do things to make a plant better and end up making it worse 😢


Looking at it from the other side, many people's lavender (including mine) looked a sorry state after all the hot weather, and looked as if it hadn't been watered for months (it had!)


A passer by actually told me it was dead! Had I not known it wasn't, I might have dug it up and thrown it away!


Cutting all the dried bits off (but above the woody bit) has brought it back to its normal appearance, thank goodness!

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