Beginner Gardening: Growing Lavender in zone 5 garden - advice needed, 0 by twohassles43

twohassles43 wrote:
Hello jjsgramma, thanks for the reply. I am loving this sight, and happy to see people from our area. Your advice is good. I am thinking my lavander will be ok on our screened in porch and wont need too much attention. I also thought about putting it in the garage as your saying, but i was worried about it getting sunlight. From what i am reading i have a hearty lavander plant, but it does need sunlight through the winter. So where is it you work at. We may just know each other. My name is Joyce, i am 47 yrs old, and have lived in
Galesburg all my life. I know lots of people from this area, as i have usually always worked with the public. I presently work at Rosewood Care Center in Medical records. I have been to Woodhull many times, and i grew up in a town about like Woodhull, probably even smaller. I was raised in Wataga, and we always played ball against Woodhull. Small world huh! Great to meet u btw. Would love to see pictures of your flowers. I really got into this past summer, and i am already wondering what i am going to do to keep me busy all winter. I hate seeing my flowers looking so sad now. :( Here is my last picture taken this year of my impatients. As you can see the blooms are starting to die off from the colder weather in this picture a couple of weeks ago. Dont look at the stuff around it that is also dieing. I mainly want you to see how TALL my impatients got. I planted them around a huge mushroom that is carved from wood, and they got nearly as tall as that mushroom. You can barely see the mushroom sticking up in the center of the impatients. They were sure pretty though all summer. It amazes me too look at the pictures from when i first planted up until the end of Sept. and see how much they grew.