Help please! Why are my lavenders drooping?

[soupdragon321]

Morning lovely people, hope you are all ok. This is my first post in the gardening section as we just moved house and have not gardened before! We purchased a load of lavender plants and potted them up in multi -purpose compost last week in pots. Think they are french lavender - they have the 'bunny ears'. We made sure we had holes in the bottom of the pots. This week all the heads have drooped over. We googled it and it said they may have had too much water, so we put them in full sun and have tried to let them dry out but they have not improved at all. Where are we going wrong? We are complete novices! Any tips gratefully received!

Can you post a picture?

Lavenders need good drainage so adding grit to the compost would help, and using clay pots, not plastic.

Hi there her they are looking very sad!

I was expecting worse!

Can you lift the continued up on bricks or something so it drains better? And then be careful not to over water. They might be ok, but other plants would probably do better in a window box.

That should say container not continued!

bumping for the weekend crowd!

I’m going to go against the grain here. Whilst lavender do not like sitting in water and need really good drainage, I think those look like they need a good water. Can you prop the box up on some bricks or feet and then give them a good water?

If they're drooping, it's because there isn't enough water in the stems to maintain turgidity. Which means that not enough water is coming in via the roots to balance out the water being lost from the leaves. So either there isn't enough water around the roots (in which case the soil will be dry) or the roots have rotted and are no longer effective in taking up the water. At this time of year, in a container, in the weather that we have had, I would suspect too little water, in which case, you'll presumably be seeing an improvement in the next few days.

THank you, we have seen an improvement in some of them - we haven't watered them ourselves but there has been a lot of rain. However, some of them look worse! Not sure what to do..

I also have French lavender and it drooped when it was thirsty. I had been so careful not to over water that it had gone the other way.....

Before you planted them, did you soak them in water and 'tease' out roots that looked a little like they were getting towards pot bound? I was advised to do this after planting lavender which drooped. I dug them all up again, soaked them in trugs of water for about an hour, teased out the roots and replante them and watered. They did loads better for that.