Lavender

[hope19]

My two year old lavender plant has suddenly turned greyish and looks like it is dying..help please.

[rowanwitch]

trim it lightly feed with half strength multi purpose feed and keep it watered...it might survive...but lavenders do seem to give up and die sometimes for no obvious reason

[Bbbananas]

Do as rowan said and hope for the best.
If not - replace it. Lavenders aren't that expensive :-)

[ethandron]

i ordered 24 small lavender plants from holland about 6 weeks ago, so far 11 have survived :(
also bought 10 fairly large established potted ones reduced to £1.50 in homebase two weeks ago and one of them looks like it's on its way out.
i wonder if it's something to do with all the rain we've had lately, lavenders like drought conditions.

[LoftyLottie]

Mine don't look very good. I think the excess rain has a lot to do with it.

[rowanwitch]

would guess the fine fibrous feeding roots have rotted.....you could also try uprooting it trimming ang really bad bits and planting it back i a pot wher it will be able to drain better fr a while... improve the soil drainage with some sharp sand before replanting

[shaneystar2]

Mine has been lovely this year .I'm still drying off bunches of it .
http://i35.tinypic.com/w9dv61.jpg
Lavender likes poor soil .If the soil is too heavy and loamy you need to balance it out a bit with grit and sand .Try just chopping it back as far as possible and get rid of any woody growth.
Just chop it back as far as possible ! Don't be frightened to give it a good haircut .
It may recover, if not they are cheap to replace .

[Ric.ror]

I have bought all kinds of Lavender seeds and have had a hell of a job with them - they are so difficult to get to germinate - had I known this I think I would have just bought some plants

[jomifl]

When lavenders look as if they are dying they are and they do. Lavendersare fairly easy to grow from cuttings in the spring. Where you have a branch without flowers, break off the small side shoots (about an inch long) that have a cluster of leaves, remove the lower leaves carefully so as to leave 3 or 4 at the tip and plunge it into wet sand just up to the leaves. Use rooting hormone if you have any and put the pot with a dozen or so cuttings in it in a light place out of direct sun. Keep them watered and after a couple of weeks when they have rooted pot them on.