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Whats happened to my lavender?

MmborcherMmborcher Posts: 4
in Problem solving
Just wondering whether this is normal, or have I done something to cause this?
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I'm not sure what the problem is.
    You have French Lavender - the flowers do look different from English Lavender - or is there something else you feel is wrong?


    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    French lavender is also less hardy than English lavender, so with colder days coming you will need to sort out some protection for it, unless you live somewhere with a clement climate :)
  • MmborcherMmborcher Posts: 4
    Oh, I didn't know. I have never seen lavender with multiple blooms on one stem before :) I'm in the southern hemisphere so just going into spring.. The stems were all long and falling down so I harvested the flowers. I hope I did the right thing, will they flower again this summer do you think?

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Lavender flowers once a year, so it may not flower again until next year unless there are more flowers already forming on the plant.
    From the pic above it looks fine.
    If you still have concerns, post a pic of the whole plant and we'll see if anything looks wrong.
    Welcome the the forum btw :)


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    You should have told us where you do your gardening.  And told us what you think might be wrong.  We could have given better help (or none).

    All that is wrong is that my neck now has a crick in it.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    bédé said:

    All that is wrong is that my neck now has a crick in it.
    Why?   The photo is the right way up,  you don’t often get a drain running up the wall. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited October 2022
    Welcome to the forum @Mmborcher :) 
    If you can  put a general location, even just Australia or wherever you are would do, but slightly more detail would help. If you click on "edit profile" on your profile page, you can add the information.

    Even though this forum is UK based, there are members from all over the world, and there is at least one Australian member that l know of.

    As for the photos, there is a long standing forum glitch that means they come out sideways. If you can resize them slightly smaller, they come out the right way up.
    Edited to add, that your photo is the right way up 😳, sorry.

    Good luck with your lavenders, they look very healthy. 
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I think the photo is the right way up and I agree with @Mmborcher that the plant is rather strange. It is not usual to see a very long stem with flowers growing up it like that. It must be a freak plant.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    I agree with @Busy-Lizzie , The growth is unusual, with all of those sideshoots producing flowers.  French lavender doesn't normally grow like that.  I wonder if it's a form of fasciation?
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    It could be @BobTheGardener. I've seen lavender flowers "fused" together, but l haven't seen anything like this before. 
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