August 22, 2011

French Way to Prune Lavender

Franch way to prune lavender is maybe not really French by tradition. I call it French because for the first time I've heard about pruning garden with scissors. Normally I would be very suspicious, but the result is stunning. The owner of the method is Nicole de Vésian, the retired fashion stylist at House of Hermes, spent the last ten years of her life dressing rather her garden. She created an iconic Provencal garden of textures, shapes, scents and stones, without flowers. And she used scissors (!) for that as well!

I am always struggling to prune nicely my lavender. Inspired by Nicole, I decided to prune it this time with scissors. Let me tell you... I didn't expect it to be so easy and fast. Just look at the photo.... 


9 comments:

Rohrerbot said...

Looks great. Lavendar does really well in Tucson. I've never tried scissors before but it looks really nice. Thanks for sharing the info.

stadtgarten said...

Dear Ewa, thanks a lot for your visit and comments on my new blog.
And thanks for the idea of pruning the lavender plants with scissors as if they were box oder yew trees. I think I will try that, I have some more lavenders to prune this weekend.
Have a nice weekend, Monika

Tara Dillard said...

I'm soooooo lazy. I let the flowers fade, fade, fade, then snap the stalks off in about 2 handfuls.

XO T

Darla said...

I use scissors in the garden all the time.

Ewa said...

Monika, I wonder how was it?

Ewa said...

Tara, my lavender gets ultra leggy if not pruned :) no way to not prune it. Lucky you!

Ewa said...

Darla, so you are "haute couture" gardener :)

Tom said...

Must admit I've never pruned lavender with scissors before? Any body any tips on preventing lavendar from growing too leggy? I always end up replacing mine after a few years?

Ewa said...

Tom, great question. The only way is hard pruning. And no fear of doing so.
Otherwise it gets leggy and hopeless after 2-3 years.
Ewa

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