Frogleg wrote:

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:17:39 -0500, Dan wrote:

Does anyone know when the upright variety of rosemary starts
sprouting flowers? This one is 1 1/2 years old, 3 ft tall but no
flowers yet....a little upsetting But I am glad it's still
alive...the past two died & dried out in the pot.

The flowers aren't a prominent feature of rosemary. I've never noticed
if a plant had to be a certain age to produce flowers -- the rather
inconspicuous lavender flowers appear randomly in the foliage in
spring, I believe.

http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katz...?Rosm_off.html

My rosemary bush has a major rush of flowers in the spring. Some
branches are solid blue.

Nearby, there is a slope with a trailing rosemary where you can't
see foliage when the plants are in full bloom.

While individual flowers are quite small, the mass of flowers is
significant. Some varieties are indeed chosen because of their
bloom.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening pages at http://www.rossde.com/garden/