Hey Kiddy - Is the lavender still with leaves? If so, I'd say it'll come back. If space is limited then basically anything w/ holes can be a pot, so get fresh soil, put some holes in the bottom and layer it with coffee filters or something that will let water through. It should (1) be bigger (wider and deeper) than your current cup and (2) ideally something you intend to keep it in for a year or more (especially given your affinity, or lack thereof, for repotting, obviously, haha). So if you're talking about a Dannon yogurt cup size, then consider a large sour cream tub, or even one of Cool Whip -- you get the idea. 1. Fill the new tub w/ fresh potting soil. The filter should keep the soil in the cup without drifting out. 2. Move the soil to the sides of the new pot to create a hole in which to place your lavender. 3. Water the lavender enough to soften it, and then squeeze the yogurt cup all around to loosen it. Then turn it over and loosely guide the plant out of the cup. It should slide out with little effort; do not pull at the plant or stress it out. 4. I would guess that this thing is root bound -- meaning it will have roots all the way around the soil with little to no soil left. Take a knife and slice off the bottom 30-40% of the roots and then take your fingers and break apart the roots -- much like you would break apart braids in your hair after it's been braided all day. Do it gently but definitely break apart the roots leaving the top 20-30% of the root ball intact. (You don't want to damage the plant.) 5. Now that you have uncurled as much as you're going to, take scissors and give it a trim to just make it uniform without long roots dangling. Snip, snip, snip. 6. Place what you have left into the new hole of the new pot and ensure it fits nicely. If your makeshift hole in the soil is too deep, take it back out and let more soil drop into it and if it's too low, fill it up with more soil; the idea is that when you place your plant down in its trimmed state and fill in the remainder of your pot, you will have room to water without overflowing the soil and won't have to push down or tug up your plant to make flush with the soil. 7. Take extra potting soil and fill in the new pot to make your plant completely snug and LIGHTLY tap down the soil. You want to leave air and room to breathe in there, but do tap down a bit to remove big gaps. 8. OPTIONAL: Trim the top 20-25% of the stems and leaves with scissors. I always prune a bit when I repot, but some might say not to do so. 9. Water thoroughly ensuring that water drips out of the holes in the bottom of the tub. Let it completely drain in a sink or cup - and when it stops dripping, place back in the window. Wherever you have had it is best given that even with serious lack of attention, the thing is still there and alive! As far as your rosemary goes -- if you see green, then it's not completely dead. If you rooted it last summer and it's still green, I promise you it has rooted; I've found rosemary that will root, will do so under a month at most. :-) What is curious is that it hasn't grown at all, according to your description. Dead rosemary plants look -- quite dead, as you can see. (Not mine, but I've been there when one pot got lost behind many, many others.) I'd repeat the same exact steps as above and repot it into something a tad larger but do check the roots; I would doubt it is root bound given the lack of growth. In any case, put it in a new home with new soil and see how it fares. While you are raising this particular cutting indoors -- if it didn't die on you, one would think you'd have some growth on it. And however you have been watering it and caring for it apparently kept these plants alive all of this time, so I'd recommend keeping to that schedule! :-)

Once the basil seed has been exposed to water it turns gelatinous and will usually not be good. Some folks use a modified greenhouse for woody cutting like rosemary. A small plastic tent with sticks to keep it open and airy. Plastic soda bottles can be made to work as well by cutting in half 3/4 of the way thru and use a smaller container inside the bottle or punch drain holes in bottom of bottle. I mostly mist cutting after I have stuck them and in a few weeks to a month I have some top and root growth. Open the cap at the top for more ventalation and do keep in a shady area while in the (mini-greenhouse:) so you don't steam cook your cuttings. Basil can be grown from cutting as well and maybe if fresh from store this would be more effective for you than using the flowers heads that have been misted and have turned jelly-like already. Good Luck and Happy Growing David

I had one large rosemary plant which was brought in over the winter. I recently took tip cuttings, about 4-5 inches in length, put them in water in baby food jars under shoplights, and they rooted within a few weeks. I transpalnted them to small dixie cups and they are growing in soil under lights and are putting out new growth. Easy.

While there appears to be a preference for rooting rosemary cuttings in potting medium, rooting in water is easy and it should not be dismissed. I bought a $2.49 clamshell of organic rosemary sprigs (no roots) at the local supermarket, separated out 3 to 5 inch cuttings, removed leaves from lower halves and put them in clear glasses with Brita-filtered water on a sunny windowsill. About a third of the 16 or so starts began developing roots in 6 days (one shrivelled and was discarded). I changed the water once during that period. This sure beats starting from seed or purchasing expensive plants. Also it's a simple kid-friendly project.