Thank you everyone for your comments. I'm in Auckland, New Zealand. The photo above is the correct way up, but the photo I've just added seems to have tipped over. Hopefully my hand in it will help you to see what's happening These are already fading of course. The entire Bush was covered in these long stems with multiple stems coming off it. I thought it was unusual, just wondered if I'd given it too much fertilizer
Not something I've seen before. Were the stems laying almost horizontal when they were on the bush? - that may cause something like that it happen. I only feed mine once in the spring with a little blood, fish and bone. At least you got a lot more flowers than you'd usually get Photo flipping is a site glitch
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I was just thinking the same thing as Pete, if the woody stems have been laying more-or-less horizontal, maybe flopping out sideways under their own weight, they might have then sent up vertical flower spikes all along the length.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
The bottom line, all the time, everywhere, is courtsey. We are the hosts - we behave with respect. We expect you to have enough of a grasp of social skills that you do not pick fights with people over lavender flowers. There are plenty of forums set up to insult people. This isn't one of them. If you are having a bad day or a bad year, have a cup of tea and off-gas somewhwere else.
You're right, your pic just looked to me like sideways. Sorry.
The usual advice for French Lavender is to trim it after flowering. In this case you have allowed at least one branch to grow extra long. Did you also suport that branch so that the flowering shoots, that I would have expected to grow upwards, in fact grew sideways.
Local advice will tell you that now is probably the right time to trim. It you cut too far back, into brown wood, it will probably not resprout.
Lavenders thrive on unfertilised soil.
(PS. My first advice was not intended to be rude. Blunt maybe. If you read with a certain voice it might sound rude. But we do need information like location and how the plant has been treated. Guesses waste everyboy's time.)
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."
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Were the stems laying almost horizontal when they were on the bush? - that may cause something like that it happen.
I only feed mine once in the spring with a little blood, fish and bone.
At least you got a lot more flowers than you'd usually get
Photo flipping is a site glitch
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Give over. The OP is new to the forum. Why the endless rudeness?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
The usual advice for French Lavender is to trim it after flowering. In this case you have allowed at least one branch to grow extra long. Did you also suport that branch so that the flowering shoots, that I would have expected to grow upwards, in fact grew sideways.
Local advice will tell you that now is probably the right time to trim. It you cut too far back, into brown wood, it will probably not resprout.
Lavenders thrive on unfertilised soil.
(PS. My first advice was not intended to be rude. Blunt maybe. If you read with a certain voice it might sound rude. But we do need information like location and how the plant has been treated. Guesses waste everyboy's time.)
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lavendula stoechas.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."