Why is this touted as such an easy low maintenance plant exactly..?
I’ve planted some English lavender and some mint plugs yesterday.
Some in a hot, baking exposed area of the garden with dry soil and some in cooler areas with looser, more compost enriched soil.
The mint is half the size of the lavender and they all look great.
The lavenders?
All are wilting severely (they were in perfect condition when planted)
I’m having to water them regularly multiple times a day.
They look awful 😡
I have bought lavender before, English and Stoechas and have some mature plants dotted around.
Every September I have to go out and chop half the plant down.
The flowers would look quite nice left over winter but you can’t do that else the plant goes woody.
Then come spring, you have to go out again and chop it down again!
Dare you forget it goes woody at the bottom and then you have to start over again with a new plant!
And that only applies to English, Stoechas is a wimp and doesn’t always come out of winter alive.
It’s reputed to be a pest repellent plant, rats hate it apparently.
They hate it so much there’s a rat burrow right next to one of mine...
There are so many plants that are genuinely easy care.
That can go in any old soil, winter hardy, drought tolerant, long flowering period, don’t need heavy pruning etc.
And yet Lavender is always recommended.
I don’t get why 🤔