The lavender plant will brighten any garden

The lavender plant is an evergreen frost-hardy shrub that has been known for a long time and has long been widely used for various purposes. Lavender is popular as an aromatic remedy, as a remedy for various insects, as a medicine and, finally, as a beautiful plant for the garden.

The lavender plant grows beautifully through self-seeding, planting seeds, or through cuttings and dividing the bush. Difficulties with sowing lavender occur due to the fact that lavender seeds for sowing must be black, that is, ripe, and they also need to be stratified, that is, for a certain time the seeds must be held in a cold and humid environment. Because of this, it is better to sow lavender seeds in November, then in the spring the seeds will sprout perfectly on their own.

If there is already a lavender bush in the garden, at the beginning of summer you need to cut cuttings at least seven centimeters long from new green twigs, remove all the leaves from below, dip each tip in a special rooting agent and place the cuttings in a pot filled with wet sand or light earth with peat. Next, the lavender cuttings are covered with foil and removed daily for airing. When the cuttings are well rooted, they should be transplanted into a nursery, and in the spring everything should be planted in the garden, in a permanent place chosen for her.

It should be remembered that lavender does not like too much moisture, it prefers a sunny place and calcareous, humus-rich soil. However, lavender is a very unpretentious plant, it can grow well on different soils with minimal care and even without special feeding.

Collecting lavender flowers is necessary when all the flowers have already fully opened, it is during this period that lavender is most decorative and exudes a strong fragrant aroma. Flowers are collected in small bunches and hung out in a dark, ventilated place.

Lavender blooms from June to July, the lavender plant requires regular pruning, in the spring to the lignified part of the plant, in the summer - inflorescences, because of this, the lavender will look more decorative, once every six years the bush needs to be rejuvenated - cut the bush to seven centimeters from the ground , however, not to the most lignified parts, otherwise the plant will die.