The expert has shared his top tips for growing lavender, including the one essential task you need to do to ensure your plants thrive and produce plenty of flowers.
Alan Titchmarsh has shared an essential task for lavender plants that you "must" do or risk having "very few flowers".
The gardening guru pointed out that lavender "looks fabulous" with alliums, particularly the large, purple, drumstick variety that are at their peak now. Lavenders not only look and smell good, but they are also useful. The gardener explained that pruning acts as an "annual rejuvenation treatment" that "prolongs life to keep lavender looming, besides keeping them in shape for better blooms".
Alan explained that traditional English lavender and its hybrids, which bloom with long spikes in June and July, should receive a gentle trim right after flowering it's crucial to avoid cutting into the old wood as much as possible.
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