When the lavender is shaken, it is worth making a cut to improve its condition and prepare it for the next season. However, we must be careful not to harm lavender instead of helping. It turns out that a simple mistake is enough for the specimen to be weakened and looks much worse.
Pruning lavender must be done properly so that the plant does not suffer. Unfortunately, a very popular mistake is too strong lavender cut after flowering. This is the most common reason that the plant is poor.
This is due to the fact that lavender It is too low until the old woody momentum, and this plant does not grow back from its woody fragments. So this means that cutting it too much, in a place where there is no more green growths, makes the specimen no longer able to release new and healthy shoots. As a result, the plant consists only of bald shoots that will not reflect in the spring. So too strong cutting will result in the fact that Instead of thickening the lavender, we will weaken it and its center will be thinned.
Therefore, it would be a much better idea to cut it gently after flowering and removal only faded inflorescences and fragments of green rush. This is especially important in the case of older and strongly woody specimens that need a balanced and delicate treatment. However, young plants can be cut deeper, but We must be careful to still do the green part in this area.
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Another common mistake is cutting lavender at a bad moment. This should not be done immediately after flowering, when we are still dealing with high temperature and dry, because in this way we can weaken the plant and slow down its regeneration. However, you must not delay too long, because Cutting lavender in the second half of September or in October, could lead a specimen of releasing new shoots that will not be able to freeze and freeze.
Instead, cut the lavender at the end of August or early September, doing it on a dry and cheerful day. Thanks to this, the plant for the next few weeks of vegetation will be able to recover vigor PO in good conditions and thus enter safely at a rest period. However, avoid cutting on rainy days.
