To allow your lavender to thrive with colour gardeners should use two natural items this month (Image: Getty)
is a beautiful, low-maintenance bee-friendly plant that offers many health benefits. This pretty flower’s calming scent can help reduce stress and improve sleep. March is the perfect time for pruning lavender to prepare it for the growing season, encouraging new growth and removing titty tatter growth.
Pruning your lavender bush allows you to maintain a manageable shape and size, but essentially encourages the plant to blossom for longer while preventing wordiness. Removing faded stems prevents the plant from putting its energy into seed production so it instead produces more . Additionally, cutting dead and diseased stems back helps protect the plant from disease and pests.
The best time of the year to grow is during spring when there is less chance of frost damaging its roots and it gives the more time to establish its roots before summer arrives.
who want their lavenders to bloom abundantly and explode with colour should feed their plant with two natural items this month.
Lavender thrives from bone meal and lime because they help adjust soil pH to alkaline, as it prefers an alkaline soil. Garderners should use sparing amount of bone meal fertiliser when planting.
Adding around a quarter of a cup of organic bone meal and lime and bone to your soil will increase the pH which will allow the plant to absorb nutrients well.
Gardeners should feed their lavender with bone meal and lime in March (Image: Getty)
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It will also feed the calcium, which keeps the plants healthy and phosphorus which helps flower production. This will promote good root growth and overall health.
Stephaine LeBlanc, a expert and founder of , says: Organic fertilisers, such as manure, worm castings, and bone meal, are excellent choices because they provide a balanced mix of essential nutrients and improve soil structure.
“These organic materials can be added to the soil or used as a top dressing to provide a slow release of nutrients to the plant’s root zone.”
To allow your lavender to thrive gardeners should also keep weeds away from it as the plant does not like to be overcrowded and needs its own space.