What is happening to this Rosemary?
Glen Cove
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winter savory -- a rosemary substitute?
Comments (9)Taste not even close. Depending on your local conditions the long leafed lavenders such as Provance and Grosso may be perennial in your area. Taste is different but somewhat similar. Each year I buy rosemary and treat as an annual. If I have a receipt that needs fresh herbs I can find most at my grocery. I stated local conditions before because zone's are only a temperature range and has little to do with a plants ability to live in your garden. This year I am trying to keep alive a rosemary using the white protectant fabric. Our temps got to zero and I added two bed sheets wrapped arround the plant. When it was still alive, but some of the leaves are now bronze, I wrapped with double layer of the white stuff. We will have to see what happens. On plants like rosemary that are not perennial in an area I suggest that you purchase the cheapest plant at the start of the season and experiment with the growing conditions in your garden. I know of a lower growing(8 inch) rosemary behind a store in a neighboring community that has been there at least six years that I am aware of that was still alive last year. Previous owner would not allow cuttings or I would have tried. I was bad and took a pinch of the plant to try before I was aware that you should use older rosemary wood for cuttings....See Morerosemary leaves are turning black - hot weather - too much water
Comments (8)I have a very nice rosemary plant that I've been growing indoors for a while now and it's doing well...probably 8" to 10" tall and branching nicely...almost bonsai-like. I have been heeding the advice here....not overwatering. But I am also careful not to let it dry out. The tag for the care of the plant that came with it said that rosemary won't recover once completely dried out. When I have access to my desktop computer, I'll post a pic of it on photobucket. I also have had good success indoors with lettuce leaf basil, greek basil, lime mint and pineapple sage. I've plans to start some Kentucky Colonel mint indoors and some sweet basil. The lime mint and pineapple sage was just planted as an experiment. I had some cut and indoors in vase and they both developed very nice looking roots in the water, so I transferred them to a soil medium, and they did well. All my indoor plants are in clay pots like the one used by the original poster of this thread....See MoreWhat happened to 'What's Happening'?
Comments (13)Welcome silvergirl. How exciting to watch and wait and see what pops up. My garden is mostly about to burst. Here's what's already blooming: Clematis H.F. Young (fading and falling in the rain - - it was prolific this year) Lupines fernleaf bleeding heart lady's mantle knockout roses (just started popping) wooly thyme hens & chicks (one sprouted a pink flower, prompting DS to disown it) azalea lonicera sempervirens 'manifich' columbine huechera (forgot the variety - - purple & silver) creeping phlox (pink) dianthus about to burst: Peonies styrax japonicus more lupines more knockout roses clematis 'Durandii' I'm going to the Cape this weekend and my dad is staying at the house. I hope it rains so I don't have to count on him to water, but I hope it doesn't rain hard enough to ruin the peony blossoms that are bound to pop while I'm gone....See MoreI've Got Some Janky Rosemary
Comments (4)Rosemary is finicky in containers. If you dont have a frost danger, get it outside where it can get lots of light and some natural predators and wind to mitigate the spider mites. Check your drainage and consider reporting into a citrus/cactus type potting mix because rosemary will get root rot in consistently wet, soggy, or compacted medium. Let the soil dry out between waterings. Consider clipping the worst of the dead stuff back and see if you can get new grow th further down and keep the shape from getting too leggy....See MoreGlen Cove
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