best way to take cuttings from lavender

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 0

  February 2018

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• hogweed Posts: 4,053

  February 2018

  Up here in Scotland I would wait until early summer before taking lavender cuttings. You need to take some non flowering shoots about 3 inches long. Strip off most of the lower leaves and insert them into a pot filled with gritty compost. Put somewhere shady for a couple of weeks and they should root. Make sure they don't dry out. 

  Lots of YouTube videos will show you how. The magic term is 'semi ripe cuttings'. I think there is a video on this site.  

  Last edited: 13 February 2018 21:56:42

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• Sandra100 Posts: 130

  February 2018

  I've had success with some cuttings: pelargoniums, rosemary are just a couple that spring to mind.

  However like sambo I've had no joy with lavender at all.  I didn't realise they should be put in a shady spot though, maybe that's where I'm going wrong!!

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  February 2018

  I take semi ripe cuttings with a heel in the summer,  put them around the edge of a terracotta pot in a very gritty compost and leave in a cold frame in light shade until roots appear at the base of the pot - probably the following spring. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Sandra100 Posts: 130

  February 2018

  Thanks!

  I'll give it another go in the summer.

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