Specialty Gardening: Frustrated for Lavender!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
My soil is acidic and sandy. I have many lavenders , some are 25 years old. I don't give them anything except a sprinkling of osmocote when we do a general application to the whole garden. I only water when everything else is desperate. I cut them back in the fall as well as after they bloom (did them this week) Every 5 to 7 years I have dug them up and pruned out anything dead and divided them. They are all in full sun. I tried to grow some in pots and they promptly died. I agree with bbinnj that it is important to buy them from a local grower. I also think they need good air circulation. I don't plant things generally that hang over them. Here are a few on July 4 2006. Patti