How to grow Lavender | Grow at Home | RHS

Simon Charlesworth from Downderry Nursery in Kent gives us some top tips on how to care for lavenders. With so many different varieties on the market, lavenders can be used culinary, medicinally or decoratively and will brighten up any garden.

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[lawrencekelly]

I know this conflicts with all the advice but I leave the flower stems on until March - they harden up during winter and I am rewarded with regular visits from goldfinches during cold weather. One year I counted 24 goldfinch in a 2m stretch of hedging! To see them gripping onto the flower stems while stripping seed is a winter delight. I prune in march cutting into old wood(!) and I get compact densely flowering shrubs in July. I have been doing this on the same plants for over 40 years.

[arijitchakravarty]

Wonderful informative video. Lovely music too!

[AzlianaLyana]

Thanks for the tips! 👍🏻🤗 Nice share RHS 😉

[jamesstubbins]

Planting a row of 21 x 3 litres pots of Lavender on my allotment

[flowerfairy]

On paper (South Eastern Australia) I have the perfect growing conditions BUT I have lost 60 x Lavendula 'Grosso' plants. Today I took delivery of another 20 (never say die) in 50mm pots which I have potted on into 100mm pots and will see how they go. Not sure whether I should keep them in pots or risk another planting in 2 or 3 months in summer.

[katec]

You didn't actually show us how to grow it from seed ie when to sow, outdoors or indoors etc?