Lavender

A question about : Lavender

I have messy lavender - can I chop it short without killing it? I see it from the kitchen window and it's annoying me - too cold & windy to do any gardening yet though.

Best answers:

• Magic, thanks!
• Careful not to cut right back to the really woody bits, as it may not regrow from old wood depending on type of Lavender.
  Video : How and when to prune your Lavender
• Cut it back but not too far and hope for the best, we've done this but nearly always end up digging it out and replacing it after a few more years.
• My mum has had woody lavender and cut it all the way back , its come back magnificently. However I had some that I gave a good prune to and it never really recovered - had to dig it out and replace. Noticed a house in my street that has had lovely lavender bushes have dug them all and replaced.
  If it looks a sight, you've nothing to lose by giving it a good cut back, if it doesn't recover, replace it.
  I have a rosemary bush that is really big - its prob about 20yrs old now and rather woody but I feel really bad thinking of replacing it just because it isn't pretty. Seems such a waste of an otherwise perfectly good plant.
• Ok seems to be more to lavender than I thought lol - thanks. I can't keep rosemary alive over winter, longest ever was one plant that lasted 4 years then died on me.
• If it's really 'leggy' you can just dig a hole & bury it up to the bushier bit. I suppose you could combine this method with the mound layering mentioned before, so you get a whole heap of lavender.
  I keep propagating my big lavender bush as every winter it looks a gonner and every summer it gets huge. The flowers are at my eye height and it's about 5 foot across, but it keeps going...
  This is the 'fling it down a hole' method -
  https://www.growsonyou.com/sussexsara...-from-the-dead
• I can do this with one clump yes, will try it thanks