How and When to Prune Lavender Plants
Lavender is a popular herb that is used for its fragrant aroma and medicinal properties. It is also a beautiful addition to any garden. Pruning lavender plants is an important part of keeping them healthy and looking their best. Knowing when and how to prune lavender plants can help you get the most out of your plants.
Why Prune Lavender Plants?
Pruning lavender plants is important for several reasons. Pruning helps to keep the plant healthy by removing dead or diseased branches and encouraging new growth. Pruning also helps to keep the plant looking neat and tidy. It can also help to promote more blooms and a longer flowering season.
When to Prune Lavender Plants
The best time to prune lavender plants is in the spring, after the last frost. This will give the plant time to recover and regrow before the summer heat. Pruning in the fall is not recommended as it can cause the plant to become stressed and susceptible to disease.
How to Prune Lavender Plants
When pruning lavender plants, it is important to use sharp, clean pruning shears. Start by removing any dead or diseased branches. Then, cut back the stems to about 6 inches above the ground. This will encourage new growth and help to keep the plant looking neat and tidy.
It is also important to remove any flower heads that have already bloomed. This will help to promote more blooms and a longer flowering season.
FAQs
Q: How often should I prune my lavender plants?
A: Pruning should be done once a year in the spring, after the last frost.
Q: Can I prune my lavender plants in the fall?
A: Pruning in the fall is not recommended as it can cause the plant to become stressed and susceptible to disease.
Q: What tools should I use to prune my lavender plants?
A: It is important to use sharp, clean pruning shears when pruning lavender plants.
your video was good timing I started some lavender Indoors over the winter I am In the process of trying to transplant some outdoors I hope It does well for me I well definitely keep your tips In mind
Lavender lemonade is really tasty!
I grow it and make tea mostly and just enjoy the aroma❤
Thank you. The exact video I needed to take care of my plants. Wasn’t sure how to do it.
I just started to follow your videos. I'm learning your methods and they are so informative.
I would like to see a video on how to prune basil please.
Lavender in a little sachet put in your drawers smells delightful and in your closets.
Hallo from South Australia. The lavender you are trimming we call Frenh lavender. It is hardy in our climate which is similar to yours
I use lavender for soap making, tea and dry flowers.
How can i get my lemon thyme to grow bushy like that. Your is beautiful.
Hi. I liked the pruning show you gave, have you ever grown more lavender from seeds?
Excellent. I shared it with my wife – let's see what happens!
Really need smell-a-vision❤❤❤
I live in west central MN. Lavender here is treated as an annual, although, I had one plant come back 4 years in a row before a very cold winter, froze out the roots. I love the smell and the color but not so hot on the tea. I didn’t know how to prune any of the plants shared today so thank you for this video. I have marjoram, thyme and sage that do over winter, most winters. Good to see how to prune those plants. Thank you again.
Yeah I know your pain having to fix irrigation, poked a hole in one of the main feeder line to one of my beds I still need to fix too, LOL.
I know pruning is a necessary part of gardening but cutting the beautiful flowers is giving me anxiety. I bought two lavender plants in February and it's looking a mess. Thanks for the instructional video, now I must go outside and take a deep breath and cut cut cut.
Hey Brian, thanks for the confirmation video. I've got 250 lavender plants that I distill into a hydrosol. We get one cutting a year around the second week in July. I think I've made every lavender growing mistake known but when and how to prune was one of the last things I got under control. Always enjoy your content.
We grow lavender for our bee hives. They love it!!
I'm using Lavender this year in my raised bed near my tomato plants. I didn't realize they got that big 😮
Thanks for teaching me! I love lavender and it's coming back this year so now I know how to trim it! I think it must smell like heaven in your plant bed there.
I just learned from a friend who raised exotic birds that herbs are good for the birds! 😍🤩
Lavender tastes like shaving cream…it does, so if I put it in anything, usually cookies, I use it sparingly. I still love growing it.❤😂
Your a good prunnner😂 Thanks for sharing your time with us❤
I incorporate the lavender leaves into my Italian mix of ground shake spices.
I love lavender. I make it into most of the tea blends i brew, and also in cookies.
Make sage tea – used by the ancients for its mental clarity benefits – i.e. sagacious, sage (-wise)
TIme to use all those branches, twigs, leaves and flowers into potpourri mix – and making lavendar jelly or a lavender vinegar oil salad dressing.
Lavender, oregano, rosemary, sage, thyme, balm, and parsley getting their Marine Corps hair cuts !
Excellent! I have never seen anything like this. I have wanted to grow lavender for years, but I was never able to. This is inspiring. May be my first time this year. THANKS. Oregano is also one of my favorite spices.
I have to prune my lavender after the sun goes down because I don’t want to disturb the bees.
My lavender brings all the bees to the yard.
I am growing lavender for the first time. I intended to put it near my roses, but the ground is so very "clay-ey", that I put it in a pot. Zone 9b, So Cal. I have used lavender oil for decades. It's the best basic essencial oil. Very relaxing.
So I have ferns in the ground that re-rooted, there is 1 stem growing out. Will that grow into a whole fern? I know it's a weird question but the video has me wondering. 🙂
Can you split the lavender plant into?
Hi !What is the best smelling Lavender?? Thank you😊😊
Hi Brian! My lavender is going nuts too… but it's my main pollinator so I'm leery off cutting too much. I'm thinking just cut the sides and keep the flowing growth in the middle (yes or no?) FYI: I'm same zone as you; lavender is dominating my only small pollinator garden area in my fenced in raised bed garden area
This reminds me of "Gotta be cruel to be kind!" I cut back a Lemon Balm almost to the ground and it's already half a foot tall in just 2 weeks.
I may be the only person on the planet that can't stand the smell of lavender. It's a pretty plant, but when my plumbago choked it out, I wasn't bothered. I love that you planted crocus in your herb garden, that is definitely something I will be adding for next season!
I like seeing you actually cut things because when you said I'll cut it by 50% I was thinking just cut halfway down the leaf and then saw you cut it down right to the bottom and just left some green. I would've never thought that's what it meant. Great video 👍🏼👍🏼
Do you dehydrate your herbs for cooking or make any essential oils from them? I also see where some of them can be made into healing salves and tinctures. I heard you say that most of them will go to the chickens. Do the eggs change their flavor slightly if you feed them a large amount of any one herb?
Thanks for this! I have a lavender that is marginally hardy where I live (MN 4b) and I've been afraid to prune it, but it's a bit out of control and flops in the rain. I'm going to try trimming it down as soon as I start seeing growth 🤞