30/08/2023
For those of you with lavender bushes, now is the time to prune it to keep it bushy for next year. As a guide, look for the start of the green growth and cut about 2cm above.
See below for more tips from award winning garden designer Polly Anna Wilkinson:
✂️ If your lavender is new - take it down low. It keeps it need and tidy and it will bush up and crate a neat little dome for winter, You likely wont have old wood to avoid - but be sure you only cut fresh growth.
✂️ If your lavender is old, cut back as far as you can without cutting into the old wood (which wont have any green growth on it).
🗑️ If it's really old and you can't see a way of taking it back to a neter form, make peace with replacing it- many gardeners view Lavender as a 5-7 year plant.
🔎 If your lavender is looking sad and pathetic then chances are it either doesn't have enough sun (it needs to be baked for at least 6 hours a day in summer) or it's got wet feet - which it hates - so plant with plenty of sand or grit.