Kill a Lavender

[Dora26]

How on earth do you kill it off completely- I planted one on mil grave and it has taken over - from an innocuous looking pot plant to a monster. Everyone is complaining about it and I am the villain of the piece! Have chopped it within an inch of it’s life several times but it bounces back following year. Is there something I can treat it with - not bothered about strength as it’s a barren graveyard. Help please - before they stop talking to me...

Dig it out?

Just pull it out. they come up easily enough

It really won’t take much digging to remove it either, the one in my garden that had gone completely leggy I just took hold of the thicker low branches and rocked it side to side and it started coming up!

Blimey, who's complaining. Mine are beautiful at the moment and so good for bees!

If they're too leggy, dig them up and replant in a bigger hole with just the tops showing. Instant new lease of life.

are you sure it's a lavender if it's that big?

Lavender should dig out easy enough, but it sounds unusual if it's coming back so strongly every year despite a hard pruning. Are you sure it's not catmint - which can become invasive in the right conditions?

Another one to say .. are you sure it's lavender? It's not usually hard to get rid of, just pull it up or use a spade if you can't do it by hand. It's hard to believe anyone can complain about lavender.

Yes it’s definitely lavender and is so big it’s blocking headstone - it there anything that kills roots dead!

Since iv started pruning mine right back every year it comes back bigger and more beautiful and stops it going woody So the trimming may have made it bigger. Just dig it up shouldn’t be too hard you may have to fill in the hole with some soil though. I wouldn’t think it will be like a weed and come back from a tiny bit of root so don’t worry about that.

In my experience lavenders tend to die when they're pruned too much into the woody stuff. But others here are saying they grow back. Can you not dig it out?

Have you actually tried to dig it up? I can't imagine how it wouldn't be possible?

Chop it off right at the base and put something on top of the stump maybe, if you can't pull or dig the root out.