Lavender help.... again.
I bought some French Lavender last weekend and it just stays wilted. None of the ones I've bought in previous years have done this. I've never had much luck with French Lavender & I had plans to over winter these in the house.
It was upright when I left the shop.
I've watered it, let it soak in a tub, not watered it, put it in the sun, put it in the shade.
It's potted in a 50/50 compost to grit mix & it will perks up very occasionally over night but wilts again by the time I've gotten home.from work
My English lavender old & new on the other hand are doing great!
It was upright when I left the shop.
I've watered it, let it soak in a tub, not watered it, put it in the sun, put it in the shade.
It's potted in a 50/50 compost to grit mix & it will perks up very occasionally over night but wilts again by the time I've gotten home.from work
My English lavender old & new on the other hand are doing great!
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If you just leave them outside at night I suspect they’re struggling to adapt to ‘normal’ conditions. There is a possibility they may not recover. Allow them another week. If so prune out the flowers to see how they do afterwards.
Keep them against a south wall or inside a greenhouse or grow house at night and bring them outside during the daytime for around a week so they get acclimatised.
Borderline that actually makes sense as I picked these from the back of a packed shady shelf.
I’ll pop them in my little green house with the other plants I’m hardening off.
I just assumed they were good to go but thinking about it I usually buy my lavenders end of May.
Reading that back it seems obvious now, lesson learned.
Thanks guys.
See my thread here-
https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1020725/potted-french-lavender-not-growing-well/p1
This could be why I just don’t succeed with French Lavender. Maybe a larger pot would be better, these go buy my front door as it’s a sunny exposed area.
Or maybe I cut my losses & admit that I can’t keep French, well at least till I get some large raised beds done.
just read your link Harry & I think I’ll have to treat them as an annual too as I like the repeat flowering (if you can get them to) as opposed to my English that seems to flower once.
That French one I put in the ground had flowers on it from April/May through to October. Bees must have been over the moon.
FYI it was called Butterfly Giant Summer. I've seen it in B&Q and Dobbies only.
If you're restricted to pots could you bring them inside somewhere over winter? I put the potted one in the shed but it still managed to look like it had been left outside during the beast from the east. It was a write-off.
Will need to take cuttings this year, the hardest thing is finding a non-flowering stem!
Ive popped these in with my tomato plants & petunia seedlings. Hopefully they’ll recover, if they do I will definitely be bringing them indoors for winter. I tried in my little green house last winter but much like you, they didn’t survive.
I love lavender, I’ve got 8 English & the 2 French this year.
https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-lavender/
I planted up some lavender and rosemary in a large tub, following Monty's advice to the letter (literally half the tub was filled with crocks and stones before I'd even put any soil in) and then placed in a sunny spot (the only south bit in my old garden!) against a warm brick wall and surrounded by other pots so that they had some shelter over winter too. Lavenders hate being damp and cold.