Time to trim the lavender

Every year my lavender bush creeps over the front path denying access to the house unless you're willing to get a hug from it. I've been waiting for ages for the bees to stop buzzing on the pretty purple flowers so I can start the yearly trim.
A couple of weeks ago the bees starting to go away and the flower heads started to turn into plump seed heads screaming pick me. Out I went with my trusty secateurs and trimmed off enough stalks to make these 3 bundles of gorgeous lavender.




Since the first trim the weather went abit down hill and it was too wet to continue the trim. Friday was a good sunny day which gave the flowers time to dry off ready for me to carry on cutting Saturday afternoon. I managed to make another big bundle and three cut little bundles which are hanging in my front porch to dry out. The porch now makes me look like an apothecary from years gone by drying my herbs.
There are no specific plans for all this dried lavender, from last years batch I made this cute sheepy to hang on one of my spinning wheels.




I may have to make some siblings for her this year. In the meantime the lavender bundles will be hung to dry and then put in my fibre stash cupboard to ward off pesky moths.
xoxo
Sophie