Purple lavender flower blooms on green stems - Elena Popova/Getty Images Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is a wonderful, aromatic herb that can bring life to your garden and value to your kitchen.

The lavender has already been pruned in preparation for winter and next summer’s harvest. Shaping them into a turtle-like mound helps keep them producing quality floral stems with a uniform stem ...

Lavender adds fragrance, color, and structure to gardens, but pruning it at the wrong time can do more harm than good. This hardy herb thrives when pruned properly, and knowing when to cut makes all ...

Light fall pruning keeps lavender neat, healthy, and less prone to winter injury. Never cut more than one-third of new growth or prune too late in fall. Avoid cutting woody stems since lavender won’t ...

Lavender produces beautiful flowers, attracts powerful pollinators, and has numerous uses throughout the household. It can also be a bit tricky to grow yourself if you don’t know what issues to watch ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...