Hello - needing some lavender help

Thats was my reaction when I saw the photo too! ( re peace and grace):-) Thats not lavender.

However the thread has I think helped answer my question, if I may piggy back this thread on the help with my lavender plants. I bought a few and planted them a couple of months ago. They appear to have more seeds on them now than flowers and dont seem to have bushed out very much, compared to what I remember when Ive previously had lavender plants, as a little hedge. Ive got English Lavender. any advice?

Ive planted them by a small apple tree in a raised bed by a bench to enjoy the lavender scent. Are they ok being planted by a small apple tree?

 

Lavenders are full sun with free draining soil.

 

They are in full sun. and I added stones and grit to the new soil I bought which I used to fill the raised bed as this area was mainly rubble underneath and had a tree growing a couple of feet away, which we have chopped down to make way for the space.

 

Nothing wrong with them. They are just young plants and only planted this year. Now is the time to cut them back to new shoots including all the heads. They will grow bushy next year. If you don’t cut them back they will grow leggy and be less attractive. Cutting them back encourages nice busy growth.

 

Thank you Redwing for that. :-) I have cut everything back to the new leaves, thought there are the odd new flowering stalks , fresh ones. Should I be cutting those too, seems a shame not to enjoy the flowers when they grow and bud.

 

Leave the new flowers to enjoy and for the bees.