9 Secrets to Growing Lavender That Never Dies (Even If You Forget It)

🔗 Get a beautiful perennial garden with less watering, fewer costly mistake from Henry’s Garden Blueprint: https://henrysgardensecrets.com/ There is a lavender in your yard right now that looks like a grey wire brush. Green at the tips, bare and woody underneath, and about a third of it never came back this spring. You did not neglect that plant. You almost certainly killed it with kindness. You watered it, you fed it, you mulched it for winter, and every one of those was the wrong move. The University of Illinois puts it in one line: it is dampness, more than cold, that kills lavender. Nine things, and three of them are corrections rather than tips. Number six is advice you have been given by every gardening article you have ever read, and the published pH numbers say the opposite. Number four is why your plant has a bald patch that will never fill in - and why the popular fix for it kills plants. Number two is a reputation this plant has been sold on for years that a state extension service has flatly denied in writing. And number one is not a job at all. It is the list of things you stop doing. Everything here is from land-grant extension services and published trials, not from other videos. Where two of them disagree, I say so. TELL ME WHERE YOU GARDEN Which lavender do you have, and what state are you in? Drop it in the comments. I read every one. Half of what kills lavender is regional - winter wet in one place, humidity in another - and the pattern tells me what needs its own video. SUBSCRIBE One video a week. What earns its space in an American yard and what only looks like it will. Sources referenced: University of Illinois Extension, Iowa State Extension, Utah State Extension, Oregon State Extension, NC State Extension, Purdue Extension, Penn State Extension, University of California, Missouri Botanical Garden, Colorado State University, Rutgers, Royal Horticultural Society, HortScience. #lavender #lavendercare #growinglavender #gardeningtips #pruninglavender #woodylavender #englishlavender #droughttolerantplants #deerresistantplants #perennials #gardeningforseniors #backyardgarden #plantcare #gardenmistakes #americangardening