{"id":611955081542,"date":"2025-10-16T16:41:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/uncategorized\/give-lavender-its-first-trim-in-february-or-early-march\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:33:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:33:50","slug":"give-lavender-its-first-trim-in-february-or-early-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/garden-plants\/give-lavender-its-first-trim-in-february-or-early-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Trim Lavender Around Late February \/ March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lavender is best given a light trim in late February or early March, before it starts into growth. Done at the right time, this tidies up tatty winter growth and encourages a fuller flush of flowers through summer.<\/p><p>Our school of thought on <strong>clipping<\/strong> <a title=\"Lavender plants for sale, May delivery. We don't charge you until the day before we pack your plants.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/collections\/lavender-plants\">Lavender<\/a> is to do it <strong>twice a year<\/strong>:<\/p><ul>\n<li>A <strong>light trim<\/strong> in late February \/ early March<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>hard prune<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/garden-plants\/how-cut-back-lavender-plants-august-september\">after flowering, sometime in August<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p>We always trim our lavender gently in very early spring, and cut it back hard at the end of August. If you do the same, you will get more shapely plants and better flowering.<\/p><p>The first trim needs to be done by early March. <br>This tidies up your plants for Summer, removing tatty Winter growth, and encourages lots of flowers. <br>Leaving it later will delay flowering, reducing the total amount of flowers over the season.<\/p><h3>Are You Telling Me I Shouldn&#8217;t Hard Prune Lavender In Early Spring?<\/h3><p>In most of the UK, Spring isn&#8217;t the ideal time to give Lavender its hard prune, in our opinion. <br>But if you need to prune, then prune! Cut down to above the last leaf bud if you have to.<\/p><p>Gardeners in warm Cornwall and glasshouse growers often <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridgetrees.co.uk\/blogs\/garden-plants\/when-cut-lavender-spring-autumn-difference\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"12352\">prune their Lavender Continental Style<\/a>, which means to hard prune at the end of Winter, so the previous year&#8217;s flower stalks remain on the plant for winter interest.<\/p><h3>Do I Trim New Lavender Plants?<\/h3><p>Lavender planted last year must get the same treatment as mature plants.<\/p><p>It is usually fine, often preferable, to let a shrub settle in for its first year with little or no trimming. <br>But not Lavender. By shaping it when it&#8217;s still small, lots of leaf buds develop low down into a strong base for the future.<\/p><h3>Pruning Lavender Every Year Keeps It Looking Nice <\/h3><p>With Lavender, as so many plants, it is not so important <em><strong>how <\/strong><\/em>you prune, but it&#8217;s really important <em><strong>that <\/strong><\/em>you prune. <br>Otherwise, the plant gets loose, gappy, and flowering declines.<\/p>\n\n<section class=\"prodshow-shopify-block\" \n         id=\"prodshow-block-1\"\n         >\n\t\n\t<div class=\"prodshow-container\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Multiple Products\/Collection View -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"prodshow-header\">\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"prodshow-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Products\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"prodshow-carousel\" data-carousel=\"prodshow-block-1\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"prodshow-carousel-viewport\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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