In order for lavender to bloom beautifully every year, it needs to be trimmed in summer, right after flowering. In spring, we do it again to give the plants a nice habit.These shrubs are propagated by ourselves using apical shoot cuttings, which we will prepare from young, strong tops of 7-10 centimeters long shoots that grow after the plants are trimmed.
We can do it in late summer and early fall or spring. The cuttings take root well in a mixture of peat and perlite.It is advisable to use rooting stimulants . Large horticultural companies propagate lavender in vitro or by cuttings.
It is also possible to propagate from seeds, but the plants obtained in this way differ in terms of flower shape and color. Lavender has a high resistance to drought and it does not tolerate flooding.This species is also resistant to frost, while the varieties differ in frost resistance.Plants growing in moist, little permeable soils are always less winter hardy.
Lavender propagation
1. Prepare seedlings from apical, non-flowering shoots,
2. We remove the lower leaves from the cuttings,
3. Place the cuttings in the rooting medium,
4. Pot the rooted cuttings,
5. After flowering, trim the young plants.
