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When to plant and care for it
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Flowers
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Lavender (Hidcote): what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water only until established
- Soil
- Poor, very well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 40 cm
- Height
- 50 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- No feeding needed
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 5–9
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 40 cm apart, and firm in.
- 0–1 days after “Plant”
Water In Well
Give a full can of water, then keep moist for the first few weeks while roots establish.
- 7–14 days after “Water In Well”
Mulch Around the Base
Spread 5 cm of compost or bark around the plant, keeping it off the stems.
Every year
- AprilLight Spring Tidy
Trim off any frost-damaged tips. Never cut into bare brown wood — it rarely regrows.
- JulyIn Flower
Peak flowering — pick stems for drying just as the first flowers open. Great time for a photo.
- AugustTrim After Flowering
Shear off the spent flower stems and about 2 cm of leafy growth to keep the plant compact. Stay above the woody base.
