Lavender help!

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I am a novice gardener that’s just moved into a new house. Any advice is appreciated!

We have a long stone border that is planted with lavender. It’s all looking very sad and sorry for itself and is all growing over the side of the border onto the floor. The first meter of the plant looks very dead, thick and woody and then the ends are green leaves with pale flowers but this is all over a path.
How do I get it back in the border and growing somewhat upwards? Does it need a huge chop back? It’s just getting trodden all over at the moment.

There is a school of thought that you can’t chop lavender down to old wood. I had a similar problem and thought I’d give it a good chop and see what happened.
Some of it was really far gone and broke off, but other parts rejuvenated and went on to grow into bushy healthy plants.
You’ve nothing to lose by chopping it. I’d do it now to give the plant a chance to grow before the winter. Water well and give them a feed with something like tomato feed.

Thank you - you’re right nothing to loose. I’ll give it a big chop later today and hope for the best....

Do yknpw how old it is? It doesn't live forever.

I'd try chopping it back but be ready to replant next year.

Do you know...
(Hones, what is the point of autocorrect?)

No I don’t but guessing old. The house belonged to the woman of separating couple and I don’t think she’d touched the garden since he had moved out a good few years ago. I will give it a chop and have low expectations!

Whoa, hold on a second. Before chopping and discarding the cuttings, have a look at this video about propagation.
You may or may not be successful but, as you say, you have nothing to lose in trying. Good luck.

I once rejuvenated a very old and woody lavendar a season - by chopping hard into a quarter of the shrub at a time. It looked a bit weird for a few months but each hard pruned quarter pushed out fresh new growth.