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Drooping lavender
Cat Fleet
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My lavender plant is dropping its flowery heads. Do you think it's down to over/under watering? The soil is damp and doesn't seem waterlogged. The lavender sits in a semi sunny spot with sun from 6am-1
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Lavenders don't like damp soil - they need gritty free-draining soil. I don't think any established lavender plant in the UK would have needed watering yet this year.
However, it's very early for a lavender to be in flower - is this a new plant? If so I suspect it may have been grown under cover and has come into bloom because of the protection. It's probably too chilly for it outside.
Also, is it the French type with the 'bunny ear' type flower - they're more tender than the traditional UK type so if it's been in a sheltered position or even under glass, and has now been planted out, that'll be the reason it's drooping.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Great minds Verdun .............................. and fools, of course
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My lavenders even the French are starting to flower, they are in a well drained area and have full sun.
So are my daughter's, the French ones are anyway. Outside but sheltered and sunny, flowering their socks off
It's a new plant I bought last weekend. It was bought from waitrose, it was very pot bound and dry so I gave it a good watering then planted it in a larger pot with multi purpose compost. It's about a foot and a half tall with very long stems. It's just regular lavender not French.
It lives on my balcony in Newcastle upon Tyne. It's been fairly warm recently but we did have a but of a downpour last night so I don't know if it's recovering from that?