How To Look After My Lavender Plant. Prune lavender lightly to maintain the rounded shape. French lavender flowers and branches can keep for months even years if kept in a dry place sheltered from the suns rays.
Careful inspection of the plant and growing conditions are essential to help identify and fix the issue. Most lavenders are labeled hardy in USDA zones 5 through 9 but this is not a plant that is dependable enough to plant as a hedge. Lavender does often recover from botrytis spp and other diseases.
Traditionally locals used to prepare small cotton pouches filled with lavender flowers to perfume laundry in the closet.
Leggy growth is often a consequence of the lavender been planted into soil that is too high in nutrients or because of added fertilizer Lavenders prefer low to medium fertility soils. Few plants are more inspiring because of their appearance fragrance and usefulness than. Gardeners should look after their lavenders to ensure they are in good condition. Only water when the compost has dried out for a couple of days.