I did a search for bay trees here to see if anyone was growing them, and was actually surprised to see there were quite a few!! Good luck!! I hope that you have great success with it! 2009-10-27T13:35:08+00:00 false 13359 2812 2009-10-27T13:35:08+00:00 5779 I have the best luck with bay as an alternating indoor-outdoor treelet (wee tree) over the last few years. It spends the summer outside and comes in over the winter. I originally tried bay as an all indoor plant but it succumbed to the evils of scale. It is fairly hardy though - so I would say to give it a try! It has a lovely shape and the prospect of bay leaves at hand to dry year round is worth the effort. I think the key is, like most true Mediterranean herbs, to have it in a very freely draining soil-less medium. (I use a 1:1:1 mixture of granite grit, Turface, and pine bark fines.) I do provide mine extra light over the winter in a cooler room of the house, but I don't think the extra light is necessary; just be careful not to site it too close to windows which can really chill the plant. Overall, I've found it far less finicky than indoor rosemary (or any of those mini grocery store roses;) so long as it doesn't sit with wet roots. 2009-10-27T23:43:52+00:00 false 13361 2812 2009-10-27T23:43:52+00:00 8012 Thanks for all the great advice. I should have said that I want to do the same thing -- put it outdoors in summer, bring it in in winter. I don't know what Turface is -- I'll have to look that up. Do you water it in the winter at all? I have a spot picked out upstairs near a window. I have very good storm windows -- you can't feel the slightest draft through the window. I hope that will be a good winter site for it. I won't be buying a plant until spring, but I want to learn about it now. 2009-10-28T01:29:11+00:00 false 13365 2812 2009-10-28T01:29:11+00:00 1713 That _was_ interesting reading! You guys have given me a thought that I might like to try that too. We like growing all the different herbs. :) 2009-10-28T11:10:40+00:00 false 13372 2812 2009-10-28T11:10:40+00:00 5779 I have been growing a bay tree indoors for at least 7 years now. It started as a tiny sprout in garden soil and has been repotted a couple of times. It sits on the kitchen window sill facing west, actually right against the window which is double glazed, with maybe a couple of hours of direct sun in mid to late afternoon. It does not get any special treatment, I probably keep it a bit dry but that is neglect as much as intent, an occasional fertilizing ditto. It gets clipped back at irregular intervals apart from leaves removed for cooking. I don't put it out in the summer because its leaves scorch very easily (even when I thought it was sufficiently hardened off) and it isn't in the way on the windowsill. It seems to be a very easy indoor plant in my experience. I'd get your plant now, Katxena, and have bay leaves for your rice puddings and savoury dishes during the winter. My rosemary goes out during the summer, and in the winter sits at the window edge of the Winter Garden table and gets the 'breeze' from the heating vent - the breeze is definately coolish rather than hot, but it seems to like the moving air and did not, last winter, grow thin spindly shoots. Another plant I keep fairly dry. 2009-10-29T15:48:37+00:00 false 13412 2812 2009-10-29T15:48:37+00:00 1175