French Lavender cuttings

Hi all
Just a quick question, just wondering is it too late to take cuttings of French Lavender?
Cheers
Carol
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Hi all
Just a quick question, just wondering is it too late to take cuttings of French Lavender?
Cheers
Carol
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The French Lavenders can be a bit more awkward as they tend not to be so hardy.
Strangely, the French stuff does ok here in a neighbour's garden, in all the wrong conditions, and looks better than the other stuff, which generally looks dreadful in our climate.
Do you mean pelargoniums when you say geraniums @Crazybeelady? They need to be frost free, and on the dry side over winter, so usually in a house, conservatory, porch etc. Hardy geraniums can just be split at almost any time of year. You wouldn't take cuttings of those.
It can be overwintered in a dry frost free place. You can take cuttings in late summer but again care needed in over wintering. Often treated as annuals in the UK but they can go for a few years if correctly treated.
There does tend to be some confusion when Geranium is used to describe both the "garden" plants ( die back Autumn/Winter and re grow in spring ) and the colourful ones sold for bedding, pots, etc.
I think technically, they might be classed as geraniums [someone may correct me on that] but it can be very confusing when people want advice, as the care is very different.
They're quite different from the hardy geraniums, sometimes called cranesbills.