I cut my lavender hard back at the end of August just to keep the border tidy: in May, with only two green stems on the whole bush, I understood where the blades had gone
A single overzealous pruning in August left a once-lush lavender bush reduced to just two green stems by spring. The mistake? Cutting too deep into the woody base—the part lavender cannot regenerate from. Discover the pruning rule that saves plants and how to rescue an over-cut lavender.