Re: lavanda transplanting

Oh, I think you could move the dentata, if you really want to Of course it would prefer to wait until the cool weather starts in the fall, so that it can have all winter to get settled in (and it would still need extra water for the first summer or two after that). If you have to move it at this time year, I recommend cutting it WAY back -- just leave a little bit of green stuff if your weather is already warm, or maybe leave 1/4 - 1/3 the leaves if the weather is still pretty cool. Then water it a lot this summer -- maybe a good soak every 3-5 days. It's also good if you can set up some kind of structure so that its partly shaded -- a panel of lattice or something. Of course you're neighbors might complain :-). If it wilts in hot weather you can cover it with a sheet (fabric, not plastic -- the plastic will make an oven!). All these different recommendations are trying to get at the same problem -- in a large plant that has just been moved, the leaves will give off more water than the roots can take up. So you try to decrease the number of leaves, shade them so less water evaporates out of them, and increase the amount of water available to the roots. But don't worry; it's pretty hard to kill a lavender! On the other hand, L. dentata grows very quickly, and if you take cuttings you would probably have a plant of the same size in two years :-).

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