Lavender

[MummyBerryJuice]

I am a VERY novice gardener (just so you know). We have a well established but very scraggy lavender bush in our North facing front garden and I jet couldn't take looking at it any longer so today I did a quite brutal (I think - but probably not for you 'real' gardeners) pruning of it.

It's not the right time of year I know. Please tell me it's going to be ok. [nervous]

I think DH hacks back prunes our lavender hedge in early spring. It is now starting to sprout back. If you look after your lavender it might take a season to recover but IMO you have done it a big favour. Lavender flowers off this season's growth. If left to its own devices it gets leggier and leggier.

Thank you. H came home from a stag weekend today and said that they were discussing this very issue on GQT. I think I may actually have been too conservative but will wait and see.

If you have cut back to wood, it may not recover. If you can still see some green bits it should be OK.

Oh, phew! It should be all right.