Trimming back lavenders plants

As most members know I have 3 lavenders down the back garden and one large one on the front...I trim them regular as I like them in the shape of balls but they're hanging over the pathway now and I want to trim them back off the path but with out losing to much green on the ball shape.

Back Garden



The large one on the front garden




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You can trim them back a little further Gail as long as you dont go too deep. It will delay flowering though

 

I've trimmed them back from the bottom before Verdun so that I don't lose the green on the actual ball but it's the sides which are hanging over also? and I know I would lose the green.

Hubby said fetch them out and we'll have some more grasses he's hooked

 

But they look so good Gail......despite loving grasses, its good to have rounded mounded plants amidst them.

 

To think Verdun go back a few years they was only small when he brought them back and I used to let them flower but as they matured and thickened out, that's when I started shaping them.

 

@Gail_68 your lavender is

 

Gail, but lavendar is essentially a flowering plant.
Lots of plants can be shaped...I do with all sorts of shrubs....but its a shame not to let lavendar flower. My own lavendar.....a "hedge" around veg patch and another as a border edge....are clipped hard/"shaped" as tight, dense flat topped features when not in flower but come alive in summer with those wonderfully scented flowers

 

mate

 

Verdun the backs I let flower until they got thick as I mentioned and two years back my hubby asked me not to cut the large one on the front garden and to let it flower...Verdun it flowered but as it continued to do so...the weight on top was splitting the bush and I managed to cut it back and pushed it back together best I could and it finally went ok.

It's around the edging I need to trim back as they're growing over the pathway

 

Monty knows best
How to summer prune lavender

 

Just like that.



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