Auch wenn die Leute sagen "Lavendel beschneiden" Soll es vorsichtig mit einer Gartenschere zerkleinert werden oder funktioniert es mit einer kleinen Heckenschere?
Von: Rialagma
Auch wenn die Leute sagen "Lavendel beschneiden" Soll es vorsichtig mit einer Gartenschere zerkleinert werden oder funktioniert es mit einer kleinen Heckenschere?
Von: Rialagma
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Shears are usually what you use for small-leaved shrubs like this. You could do the same with a hedge trimmer if you are very careful.
And it’s fine to do it now.
March is a good month to tackle lavender pruning. Garden shears work well. You could take off about half of all top growth, but stop short of pruning down to old wood.
Just do it now I only remembered to do one Tuesday so 😂
With lavender it’s usually advised not to cut right back to the hardwood and to leave a couple of inches of the green growth . Any cutting can be placed around the edges of a pot (the roots grow in a circular fashion and this helps apparently?) with compost in and watered – I did this last autumn and it now looks as if I may have half a dozen new plants from the cuttings I took.
I did mine yesterday.
It amuses me that the advice regarding English lavender is only to prune it lightly. When in Norfolk, the lavender farms harvesting the flowers cut back quite a bit. At this time of year you can see the new shoots starting to burst from the centre of the plant. I suppose with the farmed plants they get pruned diligently annually, whereas home grown plants get left to get straggly and old woody before being clipped.
It’s fine leave ‘autumn’ pruning of anything until early spring anyway.. no biggy
The traditional advice is to carefully trim soft growth only and not to cut back to hardwood but I just buzz it with a hedge trimmer into the rough shape I want. If you’ve ever seen a lavender farm, they drag a chain saw down the row and buzz the entire thing back to an exact size regardless of what’s new or old. Lavender is virulent.
Yes it’s fine to do it soon.
It’s quite common to do the main prune in autumn and do a little light prune on new growth to encourage a bushy habit
No problem – I have a very late flowering lavender – still flowering to just before first frosts – I prune it quite hard in early spring to just above the woody stems and it grows back fine
It’s always going to be a bit leggy of you don’t prune it back after it’s flowered as you now can’t prune back to the dead wood. Usually with flowering shrubs the best time to prune is after they have finished flowering
You wait until the first green shoots have come then trim to that one and see what it does ! Have fun
Just get some shears and cut the dead flower stalks off. If there’s green shoots then you might want to prune it all round to form a compact shrub. Avoiding cutting down to deadwood in the main.
You can hack them back as much as you like, they will shoot again.