Besides its many uses in cooking, a lavender plant adds fragrance and color wherever it's planted—along a path, beside a patio, or in a pot on your back deck—thanks to a long blooming season. The ...

Besides its many uses in cooking, a lavender plant adds fragrance and color wherever it's planted—along a path, beside a patio, or in a pot on your back deck—thanks to a long blooming season. The ...

Learning how to prune lavender can keep it from becoming overgrown, leggy and less abundant. “Annual pruning will improve flowering and prevent lavender becoming woody,” plant expert Sarah Raven told ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Purple lavender flower blooms on green stems - Elena Popova/Getty Images Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is a wonderful, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Person pruning lavender plant while wearing red gloves - Virrage Images/Shutterstock Proper and timely pruning is essential to ...

The lavender has already been pruned in preparation for winter and next summer’s harvest. Shaping them into a turtle-like mound helps keep them producing quality floral stems with a uniform stem ...

Time to break out those shears!

Monty Don has shared key gardening advice to stop lavender plants from getting leggy and unkempt this summer and it only ...

Question: Is lavender a good landscape choice even though it isn’t a native California plant? Answer: Yes, lavender is one of the most popular landscape plants in Sonoma County, and rightly so. It’ s ...

Cut lavender back once a year for full growth each spring. Besides its many uses in cooking, a lavender plant adds fragrance and color wherever it's planted—along a path, beside a patio, or in a pot ...