Add this amazing sweet fragrant floral shrub to your garden. Perfect for adding a little hint of color and brightness. Sweet Lavendar aka lavandula heterophylla has light sage green leaves and small purple flowers. This plant will come in a 2 inch pot and will be about 4-5 inches tall. These plants enjoy full sun for flowering.

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Lavandula heterophylla or ‘Goodwin Creek’ is a French hybrid that is shorter with dark purple flowers. The species is also called sweet lavender and is fast growing.

How to Grow Lavender Indoors?

Lavender is a good plant to grow indoors. It does well in pots and doesn’t need all that much attention. If you don’t want the lavender indoors year-round, one good compromise is to keep lavender inside during the winter, late fall, and early spring, and to move it outside in the summer. This is a great way to grow lavender in colder climate.

French lavender is the best choice for indoor or container gardening. It does not grow quite as tall as some of the other varieties and tends to thrive a bit more. The easiest way to recognize French lavender is that it has serrated leaves.

Preferring to dry out a little between waterings, provide it with a good potting mix to which sand and lime have been added, and don’t crowd it or place it in a spot where it won’t get good airflow. If possible, refresh it seasonally by putting it out in a sunny, sheltered location for a couple of weeks in late spring.

Potting The Lavender

Lavender needs a fairly large pot. When planting outside you would typically plant lavender 12-18 inches apart. You don’t need a pot that large, but a 3-inch pot won’t do. You should pick a pot that is 2-4 inches wider in diameter than the lavender root ball.

The biggest problems with lavender usually tend to occur from too much water. To improve the drainage of your pot, pick a pot that has drainage holes in the bottom. You can also place an inch or two of gravel or Styrofoam at the bottom of the pot to help the lavender.

Dig a hole that is large enough that the lavender root ball is completely covered. Don’t bury the lavender too deeply up the stem though.

Where To Put Lavender In The House

The biggest problem growing lavender indoors will be a lack of sunlight. Lavender needs to get full sun, at least 6 hours a day. So you need to place the lavender in a very sunny location or supplement with some broad-spectrum bulbs.

Lavender should be kept fairly warm, around 65-75 degrees. This is similar to its natural Mediterranean climate.

As with all house plants, placing a carpet protector under the plant will help protect your floor. If you have the lavender plant on a wooden window sill, be sure to move it ever several days to protect your window sill from the mold. You should rotate the plant every few days so that it doesn’t become lopsided.

Lavender is a naturally disease-resistant plant. Homes generally have dry air, which will work well for the lavender. However, you shouldn’t place the lavender in a location in your home that has really high humidity like a bathroom or laundry room. A place that has some airflow or where you can open a window is a good idea.

Fertilizing Lavender

Like any potted plant, Lavender will use up the nutrition in is soil faster than it would in a garden. However since Lavender generally has a very low nutritional need, you only need to fertilize it once per year.

The best time to fertilize is in the spring, with a slow-release fertilizer. This 14-14-14 fertilizer is a good one to use. You need about ½ tablespoon of the fertilizer per gallon of soil in your pot. Put the fertilizer in the top few inches of the potting mix.

For indoor lavender, adding lime to the potting mix, and including ground eggshells is a good way to improve the soil. They make the soil more alkaline, which lavender prefers.

Caring For Lavender

You should lightly prune the lavender plant annually. Generally, the best time to prune lavender is in the spring. Look for any broken stems, crossing stems, or anything that looks like it is dying and cut them away at the base of the stem. Pruning back lavender 2-3 inches will help it come in full during the year.

Watering Lavender

You should plan on watering lavender whenever the top inch or soil of the soil is dry. This will usually be about once per week. Water deeply.

Getting Indoor Lavender To Bloom

To get an indoor lavender plant to bloom, you almost always need to give it some time outside during the summer. When you transition it outside, be sure to acclimate it to longer and longer periods outside. Don’t just place it outside to bake.

How to Grow Lavender In Your Garden

Lavender can be started from seed, but may not always produce plants identical to the original. For that reason, it is suggested that new plants be grown from cuttings of an original plant in spring or fall.

The spacing of plants should be 12 to 30 inches apart. During the first year, pinch off flowers to make a fuller bushier plant. Lavender plants will probably have to be replaced every five years.