U-Cut Readiness Guide
Check the readiness stages of our lavender varieties to find the perfect time for your U-cut experience. Each stage has its ideal uses, from fresh bouquets to dried bunches and essential oils. When looking for flowering, you will see small flowers forming off of the lavender bud. Self-Serve U-cut is closed for the season. The blooms are all past their ideal harvest stage.
Not Ready: Do not cut
- Plants marked not ready, are still growing and are not ready to cut.
Stage 0: No Flowers Yet
- No flowers yet. Okay for dried or fresh bouquets. Wait one - two more weeks for optimal results.
Stage 1: 20% Flowering
- Perfect for drying for bouquets. Ideal for debudding for culinary uses. Buds will stick to the stems the best at this stage. Culinary lavender will be cleanest.
Stage 2: 50% Flowering
- Ideal for fresh lavender and crafts. Dry to debud for craft usage.
Stage 3: 75% or More Flowering
- Best for fresh bouquets, oil, and hydrosol distillation. Not recommended for drying for bouquets. Can be dried for craft bud, but buds will fall off stem more easily.
Legend starts from varieties closest to u-cut parking.
| Variety | Stage |
| Super | |
| Grosso | |
| Hidcote Giant | |
| Seal | |
| Provence | |
| Gros Blue | |
| Fred Boutin | |
| White Spike | |
| Edelweiss | |
| Ana Louisa | |
| Melissa | |
| Avice Hill | |
| Royal Purple | |
| Munstead | |
| Royal Velvet | |
| Buena Vista | |
| Folgate | |