Anyone growing Lavender?

Now is the time to cut flowers of most lavenders,always difficult when the bees are still visiting them.
I leave one of my bushes until it gets a little cooler and the bees have finished,it is so important to allow them to carry on nectar gathering as long as possible as it has been a difficult few years for them.
When cutting back don't prune to hard as often they will not shoot from old wood, cutting can be taken now until October.

You can cut off the spent flowerheads and trim the lavender to a neat shape as far back as the old wood.

Now is an ideal time to take cuttings and if you're not sure how to do it there are loads of helpful clips on YouTube.

I have quite a number of lavender bushes at the back of my house, in fact they are all I can see from the kitchen as they have grown so huge this year. The bees have been going crazy all summer - shortage of bees? What shortage! They are still buzzing around and making the most of what pollen
is left. I have cut some bushes back already as far as the old wood. After their first summer (2 years ago) they flowered until the end November so I didn't cut them back until the following spring; last year I did it in October and it looks as if it will be earlier this year. I too am a novice when it comes to matters horticultural!