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Should I prune my lavender?

k.seyfangk.seyfang Posts: 2
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Our lavender (planted this year) still has flowers and looks amazing. Can we avoid cutting it back just yet or is it essential that we do?

Thoughts welcomed. 

Many thanks

Karl
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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Yes.

    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    You can leave the cutting-back until early spring.  Indeed, the dead flowers will provide a degree of frost protection for the lower leaves over winter, too.  As always with lavender, when you do cut it back, don't cut into bare wood - always cut just above the lowest healthy green growth.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • k.seyfangk.seyfang Posts: 2
    Thanks. Really helpful! 
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    I cut mine when the flowers have gone to seed( just the stems).  I use the seeds to make lavender bags (or rockets) to repel mites from the wardrobe and the food cupboard.  (Codlin moth).  You can cut the rest off in the spring as @BobTheGardener says.  Lavender is pretty hardy, but it does have a "shelf life" and dies off after a few years.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    humourcabinnltZN6pJy said:
    k.seyfang said:

    snaptube vidmate  Our lavender (planted this year) still has flowers and looks amazing. Can we avoid cutting it back just yet or is it essential that we do?

    Thoughts welcomed. 

    Many thanks

    Karl
    Do you have new baby shoots popping up? You could prune it a little bit to get the shape more symmetrical if you wanted to. It looks a little thin so if it was my plant I'd leave it as is but maybe cut the longer leads a bit so they are all about the same length.
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