Enjoy the beauty and fragrance of fresh lavender from the garden year-round by harvesting and drying the lavender you grow during the summer months. Here’s how to dry lavender from your garden.

If you plan to store and display your lavender as a dry bundle or part of a dried floral arrangement, you should harvest it early in the season, when the very first blossoms begin to open.

"We have been busy hand-cutting bunches of lavender for drying." Castle Farm The farm ... will run until the late July before the team begin harvesting their "precious essential oils".