I've started working on ideas for lavender bags to hold the harvested buds and flowers. Here's a few I've come up with. It's been fun learning how to make flowers out of ribbon.

Ahah! Lavender WILL grow a second crop!

It is as I suspected. Once I harvested the lavender and trimmed the bushes back nice and neat, a new crop of flower is budding and even blooming AGAIN! Wow! So cool! I've noticed that some of the stems are a bit shorted, but other than that they look the same as they did when they first bloomed this year. So, the moral to the story is: Harvest your lavender when it blooms because another crop will grow and be ready to harvest by summer's end, if not sooner. I still haven't finished removing the buds and flowers from all that I dried and harvested earlier this summer. Looks like a very bountiful season.