Lavender plant pruning / (not the chicken lavender)

[nao57]

Any advise on how to trim lavender plants? Specifically what I'm trying to aim for is to ask if there's a way to make the pruning cause it to have more flowery bloom shoots come out.

I've seen that people try to prune them such that they make a ball effect. And that looks cool.

But I don't actually know if pruning them has to be done a certain way to make them put out more flowers? And when you do this, do you want to leave some flowers out and only take a percentage? (Will this create more flowers?)

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I'm actually doing lavender grosso, because it grows much bigger than the other lavender plants. All lavender plants stay small except lavender grosso in other words. And lavender grosso looks amazingly cool, when it gets big and has a lot of flowers out. So if you want to try lavender, the grosso type is amazing. Although it is hard to find. You have to really look for it online to find it. In stores that aren't specialty done, you won't find grosso. But in theory what works for pruning the smaller types should work the same for the bigger ones.

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Also I only put these in last fall. So I haven't learned how to reproduce or grow it well yet.

 

[Debbie292d]

It depends where you live when you prune it.

Up here in the north (Wisconsin) we can't prune them in the fall as that could kill them. They need the whole plant to survive. Late summer is when we'd do it. In the southern part of U.S., they can be pruned in the fall.

Only prune green sections, not the woody ones as woody ones probably won't grow back.

To make your ball effect, just cut it so it makes a ball and if you have to sacrifice some woody stems, so be it.