Re: LAVENDER

> What is the best (easiest?) way to propagate lavender  (think mine is
> the English variety)
>
> Carol

Hi Carol.  No matter what the variety is, you would want to 
propogate via soft wood or semi-soft wood cuttings. Lavender 
cannot be divided ~ if you look carefully at it, especially if 
it is a couple years old, it is a woody sub-shrub.  

But if you are looking for lots so that you can have drifts of 
the stuff, there are some (somewhat genetically tweaked) seed 
available these days ~ Lady Lavender, Hidcote, Munstead are the 
ones I've grown from this new group.  They are remarkably easy 
to start from seed.  I highly recommend you try that.  It's also 
useful for those who live in climates where lavender doesn't 
perform well due to the amount of moisture/humidity and thus 
succumb to crown rot and such at a young age.  Shepards carries 
the seed as do a number of others ... Park's & Johnny's I think. 
 I know I've been seeing it more and more.

Jaime
"I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive."
 A. Einstein

jknoble@warwick.net
Z6/5, NW NJ

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