Lavender - care and cultivation

Lavender is an evergreen ornamental shrub. Lavender has narrow leaves of an unusual silvery color. In lavender, spikelets can be purple, lilac, pink, blue and white. They are very attractive to butterflies and bees. Lavender is a light-loving, drought-tolerant plant. It can withstand cold temperatures and up to minus 20 degrees. At 5 degrees, lavender goes into a dormant state.

Lavender care also requires care. It needs light and sufficiently aerated soils with an alkaline and neutral reaction. With sufficient moisture, loamy and sandy loam soils are the best option. On saline or swampy, heavy, acidic clay soils when the groundwater is close to the ground, lavender grows poorly.

Lavender prefers care in the form of timely removal of inflorescences, repeated processing of row spacings, restoration of dead plants. Also, every year you need to feed the plants with nitrogen fertilizers. If there is a decrease in productivity, then the plants are rejuvenated by cutting off the bush at the level of 4-5 centimeters from the soil.

In spring, the lavender must be cut. In the weather, hot and dry plants are watered abundantly. For the winter, lavender needs to be covered, for this they use spruce branches, pine needles. When a part of the aboveground part freezes, it must be cut off, then the plant will recover. Pruning helps to rejuvenate the bushes regularly. It should be pruned to stiff stems, but not too much so that the plant does not die.

Lavender looks great during flowering or throughout the year.