Bert Hyman wrote:

We've had a rosemary plant in a pot by the window in the kitchen for
several years. This fall the leaves started turning brown and after a
while the plant was effectively dead.

We bought a replacement a few weeks ago and it's already going
through exactly the same process.

We thought a fungus might have gotten the first plant so we used new
dirt and a new pot, so the obvious routes of contamination were
avoided.

Here's a link to a bad picture of the new plant, but maybe you can
make something out:

http://www.visi.com/~bert

Any ideas what's going on?

Rosemary is really not a houseplant. In areas where winters are
too cold, it can thrive in a greenhouse with climate controls set
for plants instead of humans (not merely temperatures but also
humidity).

On the other hand, you had a plant that seemed to do well in your
kitchen for several years and then failed. Then, its replacement
also failed. If nothing else changed during those years, you might
have a gas leak.

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