This is a great story! Thank you so much for sharing!

After a few years, stems became very woody. i thought that the flowering days were over, but then thought to just wait and see. Well, those dead-looking thick stems produced leaves and then blossoms bloomed. Tiny at first, as compared to the original grandeur, (there were but 4 plugs planted).

But propagation was necessary, and I am lazy, so I simply bent stems over into the very poor “soil,” covered the stems with a bit of soil, applied a rock to keep the stem in place, and the plants took and regenerated.

I have also never mulched the lavender. I take that back. Once I did mulch with leaves, but it made no visible difference, especially with that sidewalk plow coming through. For me, lavender is one of the top examples of resilience in bad circumstances. And PS, the roots did not spread much at all due to the highly-questionable, but well-drained “soil.” The thrill of gardening, eh? And PPS: I had been afraid to prune the lavender. Well, that sidewalk plow taught me a lesson: the lavender was always better for having a bit of it knocked off/broken, so I took the pruning of it into my own hands and will cut long-past bloom, which happens here in June usually, but July this year. Or, even in November. Or the Spring. — And one other thing – the thick, dead-looking old wood stump? Laziness and frugality have their virtues – ok – along with faith in resilience, and those “stumps, every one of them, produced new leaves.