French Lavender Indoors for Spring

What better way to add Spring color inside than with a pot of French lavender? The navy blue bulletin board with blue and white rabbits for Spring and Easter inspiration is still on display at the end of the fireplace. As much as I love the bulletin board arrangement as it was, I love it even more with the addition of a pot of lavender bursting with blooms. 

French lavender on the pine chest at the end of the fireplace is not unusual at my house. Over the years potted lavender inside has added both color and fragrance to the same space since lavender is one of my favorite plants. 

 ~~~ French Lavender ~~~

Indoors for Spring

While the lavender plant hides the terms for rabbit on the seasonal bulletin board, the addition of the beautiful plant more than makes up for the loss of words. Professional designers, magazine editors, and home-tour stylists all know and use the power of live plants when staging homes for special events or photography sessions. 

Just compare the BEFORE photo of the bulletin board without the lavender to the AFTER photo above with the lavender plant. 

Before Without The Lavender Plant 

Striking ... but once you see the same setting with the lavender, the bulletin board without the lavender looks stark.  

Part of the beauty of the potted plant is the pale blue ceramic flower pot. The irregular hexagonal shape is an unexpected twist, and the highly glazed finish gives the plant a more formal look than usual in my French Country inspired home. 

Once the lavender took center stage in the existing bulletin board arrangement, the white ceramic bunny's head was hidden behind the planter. By reversing the direction the long bunny faces, the bunny's head is visible once more. 

Placing the bunny head just beyond the edge of the bulletin board's frame helps hide the unsightly wall plug from a distance. 

Scores of blooming flower heads and unopened budding stems insure beautiful flowers for many weeks. Live bedding plants do better outside than inside. Higher humidity levels and more natural sunshine outside nourish plants and help keep them healthy without fungus and/or insects. 

Therefore, I keep most live potted flowers inside for a week at most, then transplant them outside to pots on open decks, the covered porch, or into the ground. Since lavender is a perennial, not only will the plant bloom outside longer this spring, it will also return with more blooms in years to come. 

Provided the plant survives 

the blistering Texas summer.  

For now, we are enjoying the beautiful French lavender indoors.