okay so now I've decided all the flowers off of this really large plant next step is to start down at the base you can see there's some small new growth coming up but I want to eliminate some of these leaves to help reduce on that transplant shock that I keep talking about so what I'm going to do is take my scissors and I'm just going to start trimming back the the large leaves of the plant you can see there's stems there and then there's still other little baby leaves that are all the way at the at the bottom of the base we do this so that more energy goes into the root system so it can get rooted before winter comes you can see here how its crowding this little lavender plant it's spreading faster than the lavender is so I'm just going to take it back in the areas that I want to dig up and move some of the leaves I might take and just cut in half to reduce some of the shock I'm going to take a little bit more back because there's a fairly large clump here and I'm going to end up you can see there's a quite big pile of leaves don't don't feel like you're killing your plant by taking the leaves off you're really just helping it stimulate rooting before you know it when this thing when this plant flushes out new growth you won't even see any of these stems it'll just be a whole new sea of leaves again