My wife picked up the April issue of Better Homes & Gardens at the library today. Inside, the Garden Doctor swiftly diagnoses the problem with a reader’s lavender plant, which is languishing despite the careful attentions of the reader, who “water[s] daily”.
The problem, says the doc, is over-watering. Definitely. Lavender is a Mediterranean plant; it doesn’t rain during the summer in the Mediterranean. Easy.
But I’m not so sure about the good doctor’s prescription (my emphasis):
It’s very drought-tolerant and shouldn’t need watering more than once or twice per week.
Oh, my.
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