My Lavender Looked Dead, Here's How I Brought It Back

A woody, leggy, half-bald lavender plant is almost never actually dying. It just looks like it is. In this video I'm walking you through the exact rescue protocol I used to bring my own driftwood-looking lavender back from the brink after two years of doing everything wrong. We start with the sixty-second scratch test that tells you whether your plant is a rescue case or a lost cause. Then we go through the four hidden causes of leggy, woody lavender, including the one mistake almost every gardener makes out of pure kindness. After that, the renovation prune itself, with the one rule that, if you break it, ends the plant on the spot. Plus the soil reset, the ninety-day recovery protocol, the three-year rotation for badly gone plants, and what to do if your lavender really is finished. If your lavender looks like a small piece of driftwood with a few sad green tufts on top, watch this all the way through before you dig it out. Most of these plants can come back. You just have to stop helping them.