We have done the same with the cuttings and have now got plenty of lavender,
which we are growing around the front of our largest bed. We couldn't
believe the price of lavender plants at the garden centre and have found
propagation a simple matter of doing as you said, just keep them in a
greenhouse to protect them from the worst of the weather. Presto, nice
healthy plants with an almost 100% success rate.

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Alla Bezroutchko wrote:
Hi,

I am trying to create a lavender hedge. I have planted some lavender
last year in autumn, it is growing fine at the moment and just starts
flowering. Should I let it flower or should I cut off the blooms to make
it grow more green shoots? When and how should I trim it to form a
hedge?

By the way, after asking the opinion of the group last year about
planting out lavender cuttings, I did an experiment - planted out some
in October and repotted the rest. The potted cuttings stayed in an
unheated garage where the temperature sometimes went down to -5 degrees
Celsius. All the potted cuttings survived, while about a half of the
planted cuttings died, mostly broken down or washed out by heavy rain.
The planted out cuttings that survived are bigger and bushier than the
potted ones though.

Alla.

Let it finish flowering, then trim the flower spikes off, that will
encourage it to grow and it will become bushier.
Mike