Gardeners urged to do a 10-minute task before August ends to get bigger lavender flowers

Lavender will grow bigger and healthier if gardeners take the time to prune the plant now (Image: Getty) Lavender is not only beautiful but practical to grow in gardens as its sweet scent is known to keep pests away - plus it is an easy plant to maintain if you remember to do one simple task. Monty Don , a popular gardener best known from Gardeners’ World, has shared that lavender needs to be pruned now in order to get healthier flowers next year. On his website , Monty said: “To avoid woody, leggy plants, lavender should be pruned every year.

The best time to do this is as soon as the flowers start to fade, which, depending on the variety, can be any time between midsummer and the end of August. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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