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05-05-2003, 02:44 AM

(paghat) expounded:

Whether this is the best advice or not will depend on if you do it & the
outcome is great. But I vote prune it.
Often sages & lavenders will prove to be evergreen through mild winters,
but seem almost always to need
to be pruned late winter or early spring tot make room for new growth, or
the stuff that looked so nice right
up to March or April FINALLY begins to go to ruination -- so should've
been taken off before that happened
so that the plant wastes no energy on the lost cause of last year's leaves.

It's fine to prune it, but make sure your frosts are over. They're
kinda like butterfly bushes, at least in my area....if you prune them
too early, and they start to grow, a hard frost will knock them back
almost completely, if not kill them.

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Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
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