Awesome! Thank you much! They are in the ground. I might have to replant them someday because they are only going to get sun until around noon/1pm. I've since read several tips saying they should get direct sun all day. Fingers crossed!

Mine didn't flower as much for this very reason; but the shade didn't seem to bother them any other than that.

Hi all, just posting an update. These lavender plants didn't make it. A few died almost immediately, and a few lasted a month or so. I'm thinking I didn't water them enough, but everything I read online said not to over-water them. Boo :(

Your lavender may not have had time to get their roots established before the fierce June heat arrived. I try to plant perennials in the autumn so they have months to get established before June foresummer.

I love lavender but had no success with any variety, until a friend advised me to plant them in store-bought cactus soil in terra-cotta pots in the autumn, and enjoy them as a winter annual, with the assumption I'll discard them in the spring. It worked for me, maybe it will work for you (though it doesn't fulfill your foundation planting desires!).

I have a lavender in the middle of my back yard where it gets full sun all day, but I had to get it ready for the summer its first year. It initially got some shade from a nearby shade structure that I set up for a new tree, and I gave it daily water. It still benefits from summer daily watering even now, although it's not required (I have it on a 3-day watering schedule now). As long as you give a plant sufficient drainage, and aren't dumping a wheelbarrow full of water on the plant, it's pretty hard to over water most plants here in the summer. BTW, If a plant is sitting in 100% clay, it's fairly easy to over water even in the middle of the summer :)

Planting stuff in the autumn is a great idea, that's when I plant most of my ground stuff.