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The fragrance of lavender is lovely outdoors, and indoors dried it is a sweet reminder of summer. You can root cuttings of your lavender plants and have pots of it indoors during the winter, providing you with fresh fragrance.

I made these cuttings in October, when it was just a little warmer and the days were still a little longer. You can actually take cuttings to root from lavender anytime. I use the powdered rooting hormone to help the cuttings root quickly, and using it will also help you have more, stronger roots.

Lavender will root right in the ground in the summer. Take a long branch and bend it down to the ground level. Use a branch that will bend easily, one that is not woody. You can use one of those wire pins to anchor it into the ground, or just place a stone to hold it in contact with the soil. It should root enough to separate from the mother plant in a week or two. You don’t have to separate it; this is one way the plants spread.

Snip a growing tip of the lavender the length you want for your pot. For this 6″ pot I used 5 or 6 cuttings. Some of them were nicely branched, so when they take off growing, this will be very full.

Once in a while if the winter is really severe lavender will not come back as strong the following spring. I can separate this pot into 5 or 6 new plants next spring, and I’ll set them out to increase my lavender.

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