Lavendar

Just sown lavendar seeds.

Looking forward to them growing and getting the lovely perfume in the garden.

 

I cheated and bought mine in a pot! smells nice already

 

I had about five different sorts last year in little pots, I potted them on and just planted them in the garden yesterday scattered about in the border, hope that wasn't too early.

When they get leggy or whatever I'll just dig em up, I was going to keep them in bigger pots on the patio but changed my mind yesterday

 

stingo give them a trim early spring this helps them to be bushy rather than leggy

 

I have growth on top of my lavendar that is in the garden it is now two trs old but stem very woody .

Would I be better to dig up and plant deeper.

 

I grew Lavendar from seed about five years ago, it took a couple of years to look like anything you would buy as a plant from the garden centre. It was lovely though and the smell was heavenly. I planted it up both sides of the path to the front door of the house and on a warm summer evening we could smell it in the house. It did get leggy and quite brittle stems so I dug it up. I never thought about digging it up and planting it deeper. :rolleyes:

 

D do you think it would still grow if I did this happy to try once it gets a bit warmer.

How is your weather today?

 

Sounds like what you're suggesting is a variation on "mounding", Scotkat. There was a post ages ago about propagating lavendar, and Rossco at the time gave detailed instructions on how to do this. I'll have a search and put in a link to that, rather than repeating it, and not doing it as well as he did! But basically he was saying that you earth up and let it grow from underneath, which should give a similar effect to planting it deeper.

 

Here's a link to that thread - mound-layering was the term sorry! :D

http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000197#000006

 

Sounds good, I would give it a go ScotKat.
I would love to get in the garden today but I think I might get blown away, there again with my weight maybe not!! :D

 

One of the first things I planted in our garden in 1999 was the lavendar cuttings I'd taken from our old garden (munstead, hyssop (I think?), and angustiflora). They are all great bushes - but even after 8 years of annual 'pruning', they are woody at the base. I have taken one of my parent's lavendars right down to the base - and the new growth is better than ever - a lovely round bushy bush! Maybe try that with these ones (taking cuttings too - just incase).

Like the sound of mounding - will bear that in mind for the future!

 

Thank you D,D & JB this sounds a really good but will need to do this when not so windy.