Late Summer
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 7:13PM
When we planted the new lavender border in our garden, the grower advised pruning “8-8-8”, that’s to 8 inches on the 8th of the 8th month. This year, it was still in full bloom on that date and so we were a little later than the 8th cutting it back. In fact, my hero did it yesterday whilst I was gallivanting around the capital.
We had quite a lot of trimmings; definitely enough to share. So this afternoon, our friends came over to make some lavender bags and rattles.
Making a lavender rattle is easy and a great way to use a few lavender stems from your garden. I’ve uploaded a tutorial here for you to download.
Crispin the bear came too but he didn’t seem to be terribly interested in joining in the fun.
In a couple of hours, we’d managed half a dozen rattles and four lavender bags – enough for grannies and friends with a couple left over to keep.
You wouldn’t believe how calm we were by the end of the afternoon…
Reader Comments (1)
These lavendel rattles are great. You will have to let me know how to make them. Better go and cut my lavendel down to size.
Maggie