How to prune and grow lavender for beginners

[@joannbaumann4028]

Finally someone who explains well and thorougly! Subbed.

[@Gardenninja]

Thanks Joann. Welcome to the Garden Ninja community. Make sure you checkout my blog for hundreds of free gardening guides! Www.gardenninja.co.uk 🥷🌿🤘

[@rocklobstah1876]

This is a really thorough video, I appreciate the clarification about frost hardiness between French and English lavender, and showing how not to cut back a young plant too much!

[@Gardenninja]

Thanks Figaro! Im glad it’s useful. I often find other guides are either too brief or filmed so far away you can’t see what’s happening with the pruning cuts! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🤘🌿

[@ingridvandenbrink1018]

Thank you for the good explanation . I will follow you'r advise and I think that my lavender will not look zo wild anymore. And...you have a cute dog.

[@Gardenninja]

So nice of you! Enjoy your newly pruned neat lavenders! 🥷🌿🤘

[@KatesGarden]

Thanks for the great video! I’ve got some young english lavender that needs a pruning still. I keep this in mind! Thanks again!

[@Gardenninja]

You’re welcome! Glad my pruning guides are helpful with your lavender! 🥷🤘🌿

[@christopherhills1609]

Nice to have you back Lee

[@Gardenninja]

Thanks Christopher. A brief break for Christmas but now I’m back! 🥷🤘🌿

[@rmedwards8312]

Another wicked tutorial Lee,easy steps done the ninja way you can't go wrong&with a cameo from Barry! 👏🏼👌

[@Gardenninja]

Hey Roy! Yes Barry literally wouldn’t leave me. It’s been a while since we’ve been able to get out and about with the weather. Hope you’re getting some breaks in the rain to garden. 🥷🤘🌿

[@MyFocusVaries]

Thanks for the reminder! I left my lavender this fall because the bees and pollinators were all over it. Yesterday, I noticed the plants are looking scruffy, so it's time for their annual pruning. The other step I take on my larger plants is to feel around the edges to see if any of the outer branches have settled in the soil and are trying to root in. I cut those off as they really mess with the plant's shape.

[@Gardenninja]

Hey Candace. Looks like our garden chores have synchronised! Great tip re the older branches. When these lavenders of mine get a bit older I’ll do some cuttings videos to show how you can keep regenerating them! 🥷🤘🌿

[@quailhollow7955]

Thank you for this excellent information. By the way, your hedge looks amazing! I remember when you first planted it. ❤️

[@Gardenninja]

Thanks so much Quail. It's really come on, hasn't it!! 🥷🥰🌿

[@lizhodge3537]

A very timely video Lee. I have just been pruning my English lavender this afternoon. I didn't get round to doing it when it stopped flowering, basically because it didn't seem to stop this Summer, it was only before Christmas when we got the cold snap that it went dormant. I made the most of the sunshine today before more rain arrived and I had a bit of a tidy up. Thankfully I did only take the top off the lavender as you said. I have had lavender plants for years now and it's only after a good few years that I replace them, they do eventually start to look woody and bare at the bottom. I use the trimmings for cuttings to replace the plants as they get old.

[@Gardenninja]

Hi Liz. Great to hear from you! Kindred spirits me and thee pruning at the same time. The weather patterns certainly play havoc with flowering. I’ll be propagating these when I need more in a few years. May do a vid on that too to help show people! Thanks for the comment and happy gardening. 🥷🤘🌿

[@janinew233]

Thanks very much for doing this vlog. I have loads of English lavender in my front garden that was planted before I moved in. It's a new build, and I must admit the front garden was low in priority when I moved in 4 years ago. Last year was the first year that I actually had to trim it, cause its got so big nearly up to my thighs. I had to take hedge cutters to them. I probably did take off more than suggested, but it did start to grow again after I trimmed it, so at least I know I didn't kill it. It does look gorgeous when It's all flowering.

[@Gardenninja]

Hey Janine! Great to hear from you. A late trim is better than none. You’ll repeat the rewards by pruning like you have done. I bet you’re also looking at the front thinking what else can I squeeze in??! 😉🥷🌿🤘

[@janinew233]

@Garden Ninja: Lee Burkhill I do have other shrubs in there. It's only very small at the front. I am concentrating on landscaping the garden and that's a huge garden. Hopefully I'll get it finished this year and be able to enjoy it more.

[@Yinyanchant]

Perfect video, you covered all my questions thank you Lee 🤗

[@nozynoz]

Cheers very well explained, thank you.

[@Gardenninja]

You’re welcome! I’m glad my guides are useful. Make sure you check out my Blog where there are hundreds more!! www.gardenninja.co.uk/ 🥷🌿🤘

[@dianejohnston3733]

Excellent - thank you 👍

[@elainesmith5456]

Great video, thanks Lee x

[@Gardenninja]

You’re welcome Elaine. Make sure you checkout my blog and forum for hundreds more free gardening guides! www.gardenninja.co.uk/ 🥷🌿🤘

[@elainesmith5456]

I did ask the question on your forum and got great answers thank you. It's good to actually see how to do it properly on the video 😁

[@Gardenninja]

Thanks Elaine! 🥷🌿🤘

[@pinkcanoe]

You have a very attentive border terrier assistant although he does appear to be keeping an eye out for squirrels and other intruders. I will have to give my lavender some attention when it begins to warm up in a month or so.

[@Gardenninja]

He’s such a good garden dog Harold! Can’t wait for the garden to warm up a bit too! Happy gardening. 🥷🤘🌿

[@tiffcat1100]

Happy New Year! Is this the year I become a gardener? 😊

[@Gardenninja]

Yes yes yes it is!! 🥷🤘🌿🤣

[@libelle8124]

Prune them is not my problem. I had a scaffold around my house and wasn't allowed into my garden since second week of last September. A video about 'How to find your lavenders and other plants and bulb-plants ' would be great 🙂

[@Gardenninja]

Hey Libelle. Oh gosh! Well I’m sure when spring comes those shoots will present and you can reacquaint yourself with your lovely plants. 🥷🤘🌿🥰

[@libelle8124]

@@Gardenninja Oh I can't wait for gardening season. I've already prepared a container and filled it up with soil for the garlic cloves. Will be seeding different tomatoes and cucumbers indoors this week, so by the time I plant them out they are not too small. This year I'm ready and hungry 🙂

[@Gardenninja]

And super prepared it sounds like! Well done! 🥷🤘🌿

[@geralddiserens163]

Thank you for some wonderful info. I have a wisteria tree and love the blossums and was wondering if it is wise and profitable to train some of the branches onto a trellis to extend the growth over the top of some other scrubs.

[@tiffcat1100]

Careful Brits as N. Bucks iphone weather showing sub zeros next week and maybe even snow Thu ❤

[@janette1694]

Alot of mine are woody without any greenery what do I do with these ??😢 are they dead?

[@emmabearman4108]

Are both lavenders edible ?