"Oxymel of Squill" wrote in message
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yep, hack it back as far as you dare and a little bit further,
otherwise
next year's will grow on an ugly stump of dead wood

I am afraid that was not very good advice. Lavender does *not* regrow
from old spent wood, so when you prune, either prune off the whole of
a limb if you just want to sacrifice it, or prune to just above a
piece of incipient new growth.

Franz