Grow Lavender in Garden or in a Pot
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- There's a key difference to growing great lavender in a pot or container: to be successful, you need to pay far more attention to watering. Once established in the landscape, lavender is drought tolerant. However, it relies on an extensive root system to pull moisture from the soil. In a pot, the "reservoir" of soil is far more limited. I also discuss how to prune lavender in the plug/productions stages as well as for a mature plants.
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Thank you alot for doing this on lavender I'm praying mine continues to do well that I started from seed. Stay well thank you again
Good luck!
Jason, you are awesome! Big thanks for all great videos you've done recently. It's like they are tailored videos for beginner gardeners like me. Gardening is getting quite popular during pandemic times. Looking forward to more wonderful postings!
Thanks so much for the encouragement Amy
Thank you for the suggestion of growing Salvia with roses! Love all the info. So helpful.
Thank you for the information! They are such a resilient and begginer friendly plant. I had one get run over by an SUV three times last year and thought it was a goner (only three twigs left and the center was barren). It's flushing out new growth and looking full now.
Awesome!
Thanks!!
Just in time I will check again the rest of videos about lavender
Blessings
Thank you! I learned a lot. I got two lavender plants today and I'm very excited! Love from Colorado!
Wow! You are very good of explaining..! Direct to the point. 👍♥️
Thankyou.Im going to prune my lavender cuttings now.🙂
Thank you so much Jason for this vlog!
So very helpful for a beginning like me! Thank you for the tips!
Thank you, Jason, for this very useful video.
Thanks so much Jason, perfect timing. We visited a new local lavender farm yesterday and bought a few plants. I was about to look for some growing advice when your video popped up in my feed. 🌹👍🏻
Thank you! I just ran across your channel while researching how to propagate Chinese hibiscus. Great info.. I’m now a subscriber. 😁
I absolutely love your videos! Thank you for the information you share!
Wow you are the most informative on lavender I have seen! Many thanks
Thanks Jeanette
As always, thank you for sharing! I really enjoy your videos.
Thanks Suze
Thanks! Excellent video. This will be first year growing lavender (French). I’m growing it in a pot next to one of my fruit trees.
This was excellent 🎉 thank you so much for posting! 😊
Thank you for the advice !! Love Lavender!!!
Based on this video, it sounds like lavender would be delighted to spend time with my coastal native plants, they're all drought tolerant! And thanks for the salvia tip - I just started my rose bed with 5 plants, and they need friends!
What a great video. Thank you so much!
I've taken cuttings for White Buddleia and Hydrangea's and made a video on these about 3 years ago. Also took cuttings for Spirea, Lavender and Hebe.
Thanks for the watering advice, i always give my lavender in pots less water 😯 always wondered should i give them more
This video was very useful especially the advice on not planting near roses which is exactly what I had in mind and you've advised against this. Glad I watched your video. Thank you.
Very to the point videos Jason.Thank you for your information.
Thanks!
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Thank you for sticking to facts and not filling your vids with fluff as so many do. That is the embodiment of respect and we notice. 👍
Very useful information! Thank you !
YT says I wa watched this but I didn’t remember it - and I’m glad I watched the “rerun” LOL I have numerous seedlings that I need to pot up so these tips and guidance are spot on. Thanks. Your channel has inspired me to reconsider roses ….especially heirlooms. And now I’m on a quest ☺️
Thanks Jennifer!
Great video. Very beneficial. Thank You.
THIS is the information I needed!!!! Cheers!
Thank you kind sir, mine is dying and I been watering it too much. Also I have it in the shade. Now I know, super thx.
🙂 This video has some great tips for growing lavender 👍
I made lots of cuttings last year of lavander and now I have long hedge and I don’t have to worry about them.
Fantastic!
How do you do cuttings , any video recommendation
A long hedge of woody legs
That's fantastic! My big Grosso lavender row that was about 15 years old mostly died over winter. I'm going to make cuttings and hope to have success like you have. Thanks for the encouragement!
I'm soo trying this. I'd love to have hedge of Lavender.
Thank you for this info. Very helpful.
very informative video, thank you. I have learned a lot.
I enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
Best information out there !!
Great information as always,thank you.
Very much my pleasure
Thank you Jason, very good advise!
My pleasure Seniye
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Wish I'd come across this earlier for some lavender plants from last year. I have a plant that is looking like a desert bush that looks wild from lack of pruning and hasn't flowered (now I know why....).
Best of luck rejuvenating your lavender
No wonder I didn't have any luck with my lavender! I was doing everything wrong 😄 Thanks so much for the information!
My pleasure
Fantastic video. Thanks
Very useful, thank you!
Thank you for making this. I'm in an online group for growing lavender and folks made it seem like sacrilege to grow them in anything smaller than a wine barrel. Your way seems approachable.
Thanks Derek - and yeah, I'd have trouble justifying that much real estate for a lavender plant!
Oh my God, thank you. I was terrified. I want it to grow a little more before i transfer it into a 12 inch pot
Thanks...very informative!
I absolutely love salvias! They are such a fantastic alternative to lavender! This year I grew a bunch of unique varieties from seeds, they are still tiny and I know I won’t see their true beauty until at least next year, but I am excited for them already 😍
I'm excited for you Camilla. Salvias are such a large group with many interesting varieties.
Love your content, thank you
My pleasure Deepti!
I do plant my lavender in Thailand, starting in December last year. There is no plant shop over here selling lavender, so I have to start it from seed. I follow your planting advises and suggestions and the plants grow resonably good, thank you very much. However, what I notice here is that, as Thailand is in tropical zone - hot and very humid, the perlite and peat moss mixed media seems to hold to much moisture. Even I mix half of that mixed media with course sand, I still. have to water once every 2 days. By the ways, all my lavenders are still in 6 inch pots and average hight of about 7 inchs. A month ago, I did cut them back as you suggest in previous video ,and use the cut off branches for cutting propragation. Somehow, I did have heat problem with my cutting propagation, it is full summer time here now with the average temperature is around 85-100F, the cutting is in need of a close attention otherwise it will wilt or rot.
I don't know what I'm doing lol I got some lavender seeds from NAPA shop =) Thank you for sharing !!
Thank you good sir! Thank you 🙇🏾♀️
Thanks for sharing
Brilliant help thanks 🇦🇺🦘🦘🦘
Very useful thank you 😊
Great info tkx 😊
I bought a one gallon pot of lavender, kept it watered, planted in full sun off my deck. I have sandy soil, it kept wilting, we’ve had days in 90’s with 101 heat index. Two days ago I dug it up bc it appeared to be dying, putting it in a good sized pot& placing in area where it gets mostly morning sun & late evening sun. I really hope it survives.
Jason, you do phenomenal videos every single time. Thank you. With regards to up-potting the young lavender plants to the 3-4” size pots, do you recommend any feeding schedule and if so, what kind? 🍀🇨🇦😊
I usually incorporate (or topdress) with a slow-release fertilizer when they're small. Osmocote 14-14-14 with a 90 day release (or similar in other brands) would work nicely.
Greatttttt video!!!!! Thank you I got lavender plants last year and ended up having woody growth the other thing is you 100% right . Lavender and Rose's are just not a good combination salvia and Catmint nepeta do good together . But I will so take your advice I may just try lavender in pots so I can control the watering better!!!!
Thanks.
Thank you for the information.
My pleasure
Thank you for the video sir
🤲🏾💚🤲🏾 thank you, I enjoyed this video. New subscriber very informative, highly appreciated 🙏🏾
Thanks very much.
Thank you very much!
Many years back I had several lavender plants in pots, I really enjoyed them, I moved them into larger pots too. I wanted the soil to drain as fast as possible and beyond what was included in the original pot I added perlite, pebbles, sand, and a small handful of peat moss for some water retention/aeration.
Maybe 25% of each (thought the perlite tended to float to the top after watering in the long term). It worked very well for them, I live on Gulf Coast of Mississippi, humid but hot. Put them on a cement slab cover for the septic tank and they took off.
As for watering what worked for me was picking them up, I kinda had a good idea of their weight after watering, and due to the fairly light soil once it dried out a bit the pots lost noticeable weight. I used the weight to determine when it was time to water.
I was pretty proud of those plants, sadly I had needed to move after about a year of having them. I couldn't take them all with me, it was a very long drive (16 hours) to Iowa. I was able to bring 1 and sadly it really did not like the move, it was inside the truck the whole time but I think that going from high 80's and mostly full sun to high 50's during fall caused the plant to slowly die off.
Thanks for sharing your methods and success! Sorry you couldn't take them with you.
Your success with lavender brought me hopes! I’m a lavender lover, live in gulf coast zone 9, had killed so many lavenders planted in ground in the past years that I had to take it out of my list. I’m going to try them in pot after watching this video, and with your method of 25% of potting soil mixture!
Do you have lavender still in Iowa? If so, hows it doing? I'm trying to start a ton of herbs from seed right now, true lavender included. Planning to have it indoors in a pot this winter, but hoping that i can put a bunch outside and have them come back next spring. My seed pouch says its "perennial in zone 6" though, and we are zone 5.
I purchased a new variety, Phenomenal, from Kaw Valley Greenhouses. it overwintered two years now in sandy lake soil. A specialty lavender farm in the Loess Hils of Council Bluffs, IA lost their entire crop over the winter several times with the older varieties. Suggest you try newer vegetative cultivars for success in our climate.
Thank you so much!!!
👍good job
Thanks for the video :)
Thank for this. I got a tray of 6 young lavender plants. I was going to establish all of them then keep 2 and sell the other 4. So to bush them out in the bigger pot I need to trim it to get that. I have a big lavender plant that I've had a good 3 or 4 years and I should of trimmed it right down not half the way down to bush it out do I have enough time now to bush it out a little now it's growing? I'm in the UK and had a rough may was full of almost every night heavy frosts so every thing is slower to grow this year think we are 3 weeks behind. We are getting warmer nights now and the plants are loving it. I mostly cantanor grow but growing alot more this year
Thanks! God bless!
Beautiful! Wife wants these planted everywhere, lol. I have my work 'cut' out for me.
Good luck!
Thank you! My lavender are slow germinating !
Your videos are so informative. Thank for doing them. I've been struggling a little with my lavender. I don't think I was water enough. Can I put 2 lavender plants in a 15" pot?
I think that should work fine.
Jason, these are some of the best videos on planting/gardening that I have found. My interest in lavender is because I leave my garden during the summer, so I need drought tolerant. If starting out, should I plan to plant these in the fall?
Depends on your climate. Here, I'd still feel comfortable planting today - we don't usually see our hottest weather until July. It might be safer to hold off until fall if your area is particularly warm in summer
Hi jason. Thanks for the useful vids. I have few queations about roses. Why do roses change color؛ when i buy 1 with yellow petals and pink edges last year and it turned into orange this spring
This was awesome for a beginner thank you. Especially the discussion of watering. I have Spanish lavender in a pot - should i water once a week to establish?
Roughly, yes. Do check the soil between watering to gauge if it's too much or too little.
We had a very wet winter and early spring in Seattle. Should I be covering my lavender at those times? Thank you so much for the recommendations on growing young lavender!
It's probably best just to make sure they have good drainage and don't sit in standing water. If covered, they can be a little susceptible to rot due to poor air circulation
Thanks
This is such a great video Jason, I didn’t realize you could grow lavender in pots! One of my favorite plants, I have to give this a try. May I ask what rose made an appearance at 1:45? It really caught my eye.😍
Hi Bellabean. It was sent to me with the wrong tag - so the identity is a mystery, but my best guess is 'Gruss an Aachen'
Roses and salvia would be so pretty together! Next year for sure. Such great information for us to be successful. What do you think of coco peat/coir in a potting mix?
I've seen some really good mixes using coco peat.
Go dude, go!
You are always point on. So want to grow some Rose's in southwest Florida. Perhaps the fall. Recommended varieties?
Hi Kenneth. That's a much warmer climate than mine, so I'd have to rely on the recommendations of those who have grown in warmer climates. When I made my video on growing roses in the tropics ( th-cam.com/video/trejh_2m9uM/w-d-xo.html ) I included some recommendations given my gardeners (and rose societies) in warmer places.
My Spanish lavender topiaries did not make it. Two of them died out on the patio , and then one of them made it over winter until early spring, but then it suddenly died. I was so confused as to why it happened, but today something happened that made the lightbulb go off. I think my poor plant must have been stressed all the time! I was always too afraid to give it a good drench, and the leaves always looked silvery grey as a result.
My plants never wilted like you show, but they were a silvery green color. I thought that this was just the normal color of lavender as many describe it as a silvery green. However,
I recently purchased a couple of English Lavender, and they were silvery green, but they were very dry in the pots, so I knew they needed water. I gave a good drench to one of the pots, then set it aside for a few minutes. I saw a video once that says to let it sit for 10 minutes then water it some more to make sure all the soil in the pot gets water, because even when it's first coming out of the bottom, there can still be dry soil inside the pot.
I left the other pot and sat down to watch a few videos to try to make sure that I was understanding properly, since my last Spanish Lavenders did not survive.
I was a little frustrated because though it is said that they turn " a bit grey" when they need water, in addition to the wilt or droop, no one ever shows the difference between a well watered lavender and a thirsty one. BUT... when I went back to give the first pot a bit more water, I saw a difference in color that was immediately noticeable. The lavender that had just been given plenty of water turned more green and less silvery in color, while the one that was still dry was silvery green! There was NO wilt on either of these plants when they were dry, except maybe one flower was a tiny bit droopy at the very top. The leaves did not droop at all that I could notice. But the color difference was so clear. Finally I know what to look for!
Thank you! Any suggestions for floppy and woody Spanish lavender ?
I can only suggest pruning - and try to leave some green on it to aid with recovery.
Hi Jason, great video. Here in the uk we have English lavender and French lavender any chance you know the difference between them also the information you gave is that for all lavender? Many thanks 🙏
Hi Paul. I discuss the different kinds of lavender in this vid: th-cam.com/video/weRIbZgVfyc/w-d-xo.html
Considering your advice to keep the plants pruned back, what spacing would you recommend for a Dwarf Munstead type? (If you want a continuous row without large gaps.) (BTW, I wish I had seen this video two weeks ago when I set out my lavender. I think I fried it. Back to the drawing board...)
18" plant spacing with a 2 or 3' row spacing. Sorry to hear about your "false start"!
Hi, can you do a video on how you plant your lavender in your clay soil? I think you were planning on doing a hedge? Thanks!
Thanks. The plans are on hold - my parents need a place to garden, so we're donating them the spot where the lavender would have gone in. We're replanning now about where we'll use the lavender (or sell it)
Greetings! Thank you for your time and expertise. I have a french rose that smells so heavenly and want to keep it happy and alive. My problem is it has a lot of bare stalks. I'm scared to do anything with it that it may die. What is the best thing I can do for the roses? Thank you in advance for your help.
India
You can't be too afraid to prune - it will help to keep your rose in good condition over time.
Thank you, very good points! Does the same rule sort of speak applies to rosemary? To cut it back to 6- 9 inches?
Yes - to keep the plant refreshing itself from the base.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm thanks so much! That's where I messed up and now it's big and woodsy and if I prune it doesn't do anything. I need to take some cuttings and start over. Have a blessed day! I enjoy your practical videos! 🤗
Excellent video, and I learned alot. I made the mistake of not cutting back my English Lavender last fall, and now (May 2023) my plant, which is planted in the ground, is very woody. I have cut back the branches, and see a bit of new growth, but I was wondering if you can offer any suggestions on how I can keep this plant growing.
Just patience and good garden conditions at this point. Don't throw fertilizer at it to encourage - it might backfire.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Thanks for the quick response. I will keep my fingers crossed, and hope for the best.
I'm in zone 7b and my flowers have bloomed and are dying out and the leaves are light green with some brown so should I cut it back right now it's really hot here IN GA and this was my first successful season since I bought it last year that it flowered 😁. What do I do with the buds since the flowers are gone. I have the Spanish lavender and I love the smell of lavender so I would love to use it around the house.
I'd definitely trim off the spent stems to encourage a new flush of growth and hopefully a quick return to flowering. I hope you enjoy the stems around the house for so long as they remain fragrant!
This is amazing my lavender starting to grow about three weeks now (from seed) mostly of them died but three sprouted but the two of them died suddenly.. now i only have one. I started misting and avoid direct sunlight.. it has now four leaves which im very excited but has brown spot on them.. is it bad to have brown spot?
A little bit of discoloration shouldn't worry you - if the seedling is growing well, it'll grow right through it.
My lavender did not come up last year!i made a mistake ! When I was germinating, I did not put my seed on top! I buried them! 🙁 in experience ! Live and learn! So I going to try again this year! Do I have to put the seeds I. The fridge! ? Thank you for this video! Sir
Thank you for this video!
I transplanted starter plants from a nursery into big pots (16in) about a week ago. A few of them have just one flower shoot. Should I prune them now or wait until summer? They’re probably about 3-4 inches tall right now.
Hi Michelle. A little top prune for branching is always a benefit to a young plant in my experience.
Do I need to put compost, mulch, fertilizer in my potted lavender? It was getting too packed with water in the store bought potting mix. So I adjusted the mix to be equal amounts of perlite, peat moss, and potting soil. Should I do anything differently? Thank you for your help.
Your mix sounds like a good one for lavender
In Southern California, we think it is a “drought tolerant plant.” No. If you don’t water it it turns completely gray. 💜
Such a relative term, right? It's just the same as when I say "hardy" to a gardener in Minnesota.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm lol I can relate to CA and Washington State, but not MN! Hardy sounds “Iffy.” 😹
Thanks for that info. I needed it. I want to grow a lot more lavendar around my property. My 2 big clumps have done well over a decade, but I never really knew just what I should be doing. I watched a documentary once that researchers had learned during the black plague centuries ago, a particular town in France the people did not get sick, they found it was the fleas causing the sickness, and the town's occupation was raising lavender...fields of lavender. They found the fleas do not like lavender.Not one person in that town got sick. Aside from just loving the aroma and the beauty, I am trying to really expand my gardens with lavender. Also all the varieties of lavender attract lots of different honey bees which are so beneficial. And with bee populations dwindling I like that I can help the bees too. Next I want to learn the best companions for the lavender in the gardens. Would have any suggestions ?
You may want to aim for some plants that are similar in their moisture requirements: th-cam.com/video/cTMNH3fdGEg/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for demistifying how to grow this plant. My luck with growing lavender (in containers) here in L. A. (Zone 9-10) has been a mixed bag of success & failures, and I've tried different cultivars and species (English, French, Fern Leaf, Grosso, etc.). I've always heard that lavender doesn't like fertilizer, but you mention top dressing your older cuttings with (what looked like Ozmacote) a fertilizer. Can you provide some info about the type and when to fertilize container-growing lavender, please? Thank you in advance, I appreciate your videos so much.
For lavender I go with something fairly balanced: 10-10-10 or similar. I know another producer of lavender who swears by a lower N (think 5-10-10) For me, I think either one would be fine.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Can you use fish emulsion? Thank you
Thank you for sharing
I don’t have green house 😊 how can I care I am leaving in Canada where weather is mix
Waiting for your reply
I live in Canada too - lots of different climates. Some lavender varieties are hardy to zone 5, so would be fine in many places.
Thanks Jason for the next steps for our lavender journey. Quick question - what kind of fertilizer do you use on your perennials?
In the garden I use alfalfa pellets and a general purpose granular (approx 10-10-10)
@@FraserValleyRoseFarmThanks for answering my question Jason :) I think you showed us the alfalfa pellets in a video. Is it the same as what one gives animals as food and does this not attract critters like rabbits into one's yard? Where would one purchase this?
Hi Leia - I get it at the local feed store (I think they sell it for cows & goats and such). When I apply it, I also water it in and it just about turns to a mush that soaks into the top layer of the soil right away. I have field mice in my area, but they seem to take no notice of it.
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Thanks for the info Jason :)
I just brought a lavender tree and I wanted to put it in large pot. I want to keep it on the outside back patio. For the spring and summer and bring it in for the winter. Should I put rocks on the bottom of the pot before I put the soil and replant it for good Drainage or should I get a big pot that has holes in the bottom for the drainage what do you advise is the best way to go thank you Nancy Neilson
Hi Nancy. No, rocks in the bottom don't really help with drainage - so just one with decent drain holes.
It seem to do pretty well when I started ignoring it.
I received this potted lavender as a gift. I think I have a French lavender. I live in FL. The stems are very long and the ends still have a little of the flower open. How do I know when the flowering period is over and I should trim back. Some of the fronds are 40 inches long!
Hi Cheryl. I'd go with the bloom period being over when you say so! If they're long and there's not much color, go ahead and cut them back.