Is all my lavender dead?

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All my French lavender looks like this....
No sign of life inside the plants and the stems are very woody. I can break a twig and inside it's not green but doesn't break that easily.
Do I need to bin it all??

Are there any new green leaves coming though at all? I've got a few that look like this but I've left them a couple of weeks and can now see green leaves so I'll give them some time to recover!

No - no new green leaves anywhere

Mine all look like that too this year. I am leaving it just in case it springs back to life.

Mine looked like that and it had died.

We had a very wet winter. I've lost a lot of my slightly more Mediterranean plants such as lavender and oragano. Apparently they don't like to be water logged. They like well draining soil and this winter finished them off.

Thanks all. - I'll give them a couple more weeks for the weather to warm up and if no joy they'll all have to go

I suspect if you can't see any tiny leaves at the bottom of the stems it's gone.

English lavender is a bit less tender than the French I think - so survives frost better. But no lavender likes cold wet feet - and it was a cold damp winter.

My english lavender looked ropey but I cut it back and it now has green leaves at the top (its just now a bit leggy). The french has suffered badly and I think it will all have to go but I'm waiting and praying. Unfortunately I have 36 of them

Mine did this, then I realised it was 8 years old,
Time to get a knew one, I think.
Always cut back but no further than the years growth.

Lavender is my garden nemesis. Seemingly easy but I prefer French lavender and it died this year again

Ohhh, I can't do lavender at all....yet I live near an area famous for it.

It looks lovely Year 1, then turns into a woody, leggy mess. As you can't prune into the old wood, I never have a clue how to sort it out, so it gets worse and worse.

French lavender isn't reliably hardy in the UK.

My French has all died, badly hit by cold and frost, but the English all seems to have survived and is beginning to grow nicely.

Glad its not just me, I love lavender but just can't get the hang of it, as pp said,year one( and two if im lucky!) It looks lovely then it goes leggy then its all woody and straggly with green tips, i have heavy clay soil so not brilliant drainage also had snow this winter for first time in a few years .
I have 4 bushes that all look dead or only have a few green bits at tips but mainly look dead, my white lavender in a pot has survived a bit better but it still going woody!

@CointreauVersial somebody near me cuts their English lavender back really savagely every year, and it grows back beautifully. I've never dared be so bold, but they never have any trouble. South East though, so maybe that helps.

My dad is in Yorkshire and always cuts it shockingly short and it comes back great every year. He told me it's also a really easy one to take cuttings and all you need is some rooting powder and to stick it in the ground.

Oh dear - sounds like we've all lost our French Lavender. I have a couple of the same batch of plants out the front which have survived but it's warmer out there and the soil is less damp. I think lavender at the bottom of a bank is not the best place as it's always going to be damper there. Will have to have a rethink about what to replace it with. I too have about 25 plants

The wet winter has killed off my entire herb bed, including the lavender. Only the rosemary has survived.

I had two in pots that are gonna but others survived.

i have some lavender in the garden and mine is shooting, we're NE Scotland and had loads of snow last week!

It probably is the type you have, some of the prettier ones are just not hardy....I only realised this last year when having a google to see if the Lidl offer was good or not...they often have lovely plants for not much money and I am well pleased that mine made it through.

The Yorkshire dad is right, gutting S are really easy. It also grows quite quickly if you buy trays of cheap plug plants.

one of my french ones looks like this. if you break a small twig in half is it still green inside? If so then it should be ok. if it just looks brown then that equals dead.

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Ohhh, I can't do lavender at all....yet I live near an area famous for it.

It looks lovely Year 1, then turns into a woody, leggy mess. As you can't prune into the old wood, I never have a clue how to sort it out, so it gets worse and worse.

You prune as hard as you dare from year one.

If you’re unsure, either do it just after flowering or wait till tiny green shoots appear in spring, and prune to leave one or two shoots

If it’s getting so leggy you’re itching to uproot it, you’ve nothing to lose by a hard prune before you do so

Another hard-pruner here and my lavender looks great. I inherited a very woody leggy mess when we moved, a couple of years of savage pruning and it was a beautiful plant. Agree with English lavender though, I don't bother with French, I do live at a high elevation in the NW though!

Be careful with Aldi/Lidl as they might be the French variety. I have two lavender border hedges I made from buying 36 plug plants from a Groupon offer pretty cheaply. They were very tiny when they came so went in pots first for a bit before planting. By the second year they were the right size. I don't cut right back, just chop & lop where I see fit, so far so good!