Bunching and Drying Lavender

Exactly When to Start Harvesting Lavender Flower?

      Summer days are captured in the wonderful smell of dried Lavender.  The wonderful fragrance is released for almost a year and the color slowly fades to an indigo depending on the variety of Lavender harvested.

      When harvested commercially for drying purposes, Lavender flower is bunched and tied up on large drying racks filling the storehouse with it's fragrance. When harvested for essential oil production fully mature fresh flower blooms are carted off for steam distillation.



     When should you cut your Lavender? The cutting of Lavender flowers from your home flower garden can be done at various times.  Harvest blooms for dried craft arrangements just before the florets burst open while they are still swollen. Learn more about Lavender flower development and see a picture of the different flower stages.

     For sachets, potpourris,  wands, and soaps cut later after the blooms have opened and the fragrance aroma and the oil content have fully developed and is at it's peak.

     Nothing can be more rewarding than growing, harvesting and then creating something from your own Lavender plants.




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