Taking Lavender cuttings.

[Miss Mousetrousers]

MODS - please move this post if needed.
When is the best time to take lavender cuttings and how are they over-wintered to get plants for next year?

[veggiechicken]

Moved to the Flower Mill.

I've no idea when the right time is but I took some lavender cuttings a couple of weeks ago and they seem to have taken.
They're the back row of these cuttings -

[Aberdeenplotter]

some more info please VC. Heel cuttings? type of compost? Polybag over the top and anything else you can think of like hormone rooting compound/gel

[veggiechicken]

You should know me better than that!!

Cut off some young top shoots, strip off the bottom leaves.
Fill pots with molehill soil and old compost,
Poke your finger in the soil and shove a cutting in.
Set aside and leave them to get on with it.
Some water in the tray when it was really dry.

All the plants in the photo were done the same way - lavender, rosemary, sage and thyme.
More at https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ngs_97039.html

[bramble]

I took a load of lavender cuttings last year, aroundAugust time.
Stuck them all into pots, about 2 per pot.
Overwintered in the greenhouse, no special care as my lavender lives outdoors all the year round.
Dug up my old hedge in the spring of this year and planted out the cuttings which had all rooted.
Some of them are already producing a few flower shoots.

[Ocelot]

I took some Lavendula Pinata cuttings a few weeks ago (softwood cuttings, as though they were normal perennials) and most have taken.

[Ocelot]

You should know me better than that!!
All the plants in the photo were done the same way - lavender, rosemary, sage and thyme.
More at https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...ngs_97039.html

You've almost got the whole Scarborough Fair there!

[veggiechicken]

Parsley is happily self seeding.