How To Grow Lavender Munstead

Read my article for more way to increase a lavenders life span. Pruning the lavender every year is essential to slow down the lavenders woody base from growing.

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How to grow lavender munstead. Munsteads seeds take up to six months to produce garden-ready lavender. Remove the lower leaves and dip the cut ends in rooting hormone powder. It needs sandy well-draining soil and full sun.

Prepare your garden soil. In heavy soil improve drainage as it does not tolerate waterlogging. 16-20 40-50cm 12 30cm Mature width.

Lavender Growing Conditions Lavender is native to the Mediterranean so it likes cool winters and hot dry summers reminiscent of its native climate. The gray foliage and dark purple flowers are spectacular and come on in the heat of summer when all. 1 Select a well-drained site with at least six hours of direct.

Small compact lavender varieties are best for pots but growing lavender in pots also allows the opportunity to grow some less hardy varieties such as Lavandula Stoechas also known as French Lavender as they can be easily moved to a sheltered spot over winter. How to care for lavender Munstead. Check your watering patterns and dont place lavender where it will get the irrigation from your vegetable garden.

Lavender is easy to plant and takes just a few minutes. If your soil is heavy plant on a 20-30cm 8in-1ft mound ridge or in a raised bed where the roots will not sit in wet soil. Dig over any free-draining soil and remove the weeds before planting.

Written by Mark Bennett in Lavender Care To calculate the spacing for lavender hedge you simply have to find out the size of your lavender variety at maturity and then plant each lavender at slightly less then half the width of the spread of the lavender at full size. Lavender is drought resistant and hardy to zone 7 or 8. Plant a large triangle of Sweet Lavender in the middle of a garden and surround it with Chocolate Scented Daisies for a visual and fragrant impact.

Lavender plants are best propagated by either softwood cuttings the soft flexible tips of shoots or hardwood cuttings segments of shoots with woody stems. This helps loosen the lavender and its dirt ball from the smaller pot. Propagation Propagate by semi-hardwood cuttings in summer.

Already-started nursery plants bring the quickest reward. Plants typically reach between 1 and 3 feet in height. One time per 14 days in a drought.

Potash will encourage flowering but high nitrogen fertilisers and manure will result in floppy plants. Take a softwood cutting of several inches in the spring or later in the summer when stems are more mature. Woolly Lavender likes it dry.

Hardwood cuttings in the fall. Propagating Munstead Lavender To propagate from an existing plant cut healthy shoots of about six inches in length. Cover with plastic to form a greenhouse-like environment for the cuttings.

Add mulch rock or pea gravel work particularly well to keep weeds to a minimum. How to grow lavender Lavender thrives with lots of light and good air circulation. One time per 14 days in a drought.

Plant the cuttings in a pot filled with potting soil and keep them well-watered in a partially shady location until you see new growth. The most important practices to ensure lavender munstead lives a long time are regular pruning well draining soil and full sun. Choose a well-drained site in full sun.

Softwood cuttings are available in the spring. Discover lavender musntead with tips from a lavender farme. Big cultivators can get straggly so for hedging choose smaller varieties such as Lavender Hidcote or Munstead.

Rooting hormone helps prevent the tip from rotting and encourages quick strong root development but lavender roots well without it. Stick the lower end of the cutting about 2 inches 5 cm into the soil and firm the soil so that the cutting stands up straight. Lavender munstead is a relatively fast growing variety and has the potential in ideal conditions of reaching a height of 60cm but a relatively small spread of 30-40cm max in old terms height 2 foot spread 12-4 inches.

The foliage is still well compact and aromatic. To propagate use a sharp knife to cut a three-inch segment of a healthy shoot from the plant. Remove the Lavender plant from its current pot.

Squeeze the bottom of the pot your lavender plant is in. Plant lavender 2 to 3 feet apart. Lavender munstead is a subspecies of lavender that is shorter and more compact than other species.

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