Create and Care For a Lavender Hedge
Lavender plants are generally easy to care for. Learn how to create a fragrant and beautiful lavender hedge, and maintain it for years to come.
- Excerpted from How to Grow Practically Everything
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Prune Into Shape
To keep your lavender plants young, bushy and healthy, cut them back in late winter or early spring. Clean your tools thoroughly and spray them with a household disinfectant before you begin work. Then, using sharp shears, cut the stems back as close as possible to the old wood.
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Take care not to cut into old brown wood, since the plants will not produce new shoots from this. Shear to a few healthy leaves above the brown stems, and work systematically along the hedge, keeping it as level as possible.
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After Flowering
In late spring or early summer, the sheared plants will grow an abundance of side shoots to create a compact, bushy hedge. To keep it neat, cut it back again after flowering in late summer — remove all the old flowerheads to prevent the plants from putting their energy into making unwanted seed.
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© 2010 Dorling Kindersley Limited
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