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.

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 ...

Lavender is a bushy perennial herb that fills the garden with a heady fragrance. While this herb is relatively low-maintenance, it needs to be pruned during the growing season to stay prolific. Not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Avoid these pruning pitfalls for a glorious garden come March ...