Lavender

Personally, I leave it over the winter because I find the birds are keen on the seeds and then trim it back to leave a bud or two on last year's stems. It isn't a good idea to cut back into the old wood.

Recommendation is to shear them over once the flowers are more or less gone - clip no more than an inch or so of the leaves all over.

I cut mine back by a couple of inches after they've flowered.

Being an old-fashioned eccentric - I use the heads and pop them into little sachets to keep the moths out of the closets etc !!!! That automatically prunes the plants a bit - then I can prune them a bit more after the winter if they are looking weary.when I do the spring-clean! The birds get the contents of the previous year's sachets! Not sure there is much good in them but they disappear anyway! The lavender plants seem to thrive too!

Thanks for that info Bernard Bb Louise, good idea Al have to try that!!!

I envy you your lavender Mobee, My friend makes lavender bottles and I would have liked to try that this year....

I cut mine down to within a few cm of the old growth after it has finished flowering. It works for me.

Thank You Goldie i`v always loved Lavender i use it at bath time i hang it under the hot tap and get the aroma very relaxing love the idea of the bottles:~))))

Thanks Sb will do that hope it "Works" for me:~))