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LAVENDER PRUNING OR CUTTING BACK

KENT, United Kingdom

iS THERE A RIGHT AND WRONG TIME TO CUT LAVENDER BACK???WILL IT PRODUCE AS WELL THE FOLLOWING YEAR




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The recommended time is just as it finishes flowering. Remove each flowering spike, cutting back hard to a new shoot but don't cut into the old wood. Left unpruned makes no difference to flowering but the plant quickly becomes straggly and woody at the base

5 Nov, 2008

 

I tend towards deadheading and a light clip after flowering, then a cut-back to new shoots in the spring. This seems to help protect the shoots from frost.

6 Nov, 2008

 

I leave ours through the winter as the birds seem very keen on the seeds and then cut back in the spring.

10 Nov, 2008

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