How to trim lavender – maintenance and hard pruning
Trimming lavender is an important step that helps extend and renew blooming year after year.
French lavender
French lavender is a special variety that attracts butterflies. It looks surprising with its frills on top of flowers. Look up our posts to learn more on how to care for it.
Hard pruning of lavender, a three-year task
Lavender plants grow old and woody after 6 to 10 years. Through staged hard pruning, restore old wooden lavender to a nice,
French lavender, a cute variety – planting, care and pruning
French lavender is rarer than common lavender. Its flowers are very original.
Lavandula dentata, the lavender with a bite
Lavandula dentata is a wonderful ornamental shrub.
Lavender varieties that won’t bear seeds
Want to plant lavender but worried that it might turn invasive? Select a sterile lavender variety with seeds that won’t sprout. That way, blooming can continue unfettered without running the risk of turning invasive! Sterile lavender – selected Lavandin varieties Lavender is technically reported as an invasive plant in some parts of the world. In […]
Lavandula stoechas, the ornamental lavender
A wonderful species of lavender often grown as an ornamental, Lavandula stoechas offers beautiful blooms and
Get the name of each lavender right: scientific names for English, French, Spanish…
Lavender has been around for millennia. In today’s deeply networked world, what was simple and clear suddenly gets very confusing,
Lavender health benefits and therapeutic value
Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is native to the mountainous areas of the Mediterranean water basin, and is grown today all around the world
Air-layering lavender: root your lavender stems in pouches of soil on the plant
Air layering is the most successful way to propagate lavender. Wrap a wad of dirt around a stem that’s still connected
Layering lavender, a great way to propagate lavender
Layering is a propagation technique that can be used for lavender.
