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"Ophelia" writes:
| "Michael Berridge" wrote in message
| ...
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| Rosemary is normally classed as a short lived shrub, so perhaps it is
| just getting too old, the life span may well be curtailed in a pot as
| well.
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| Mike that surprises me. When I lived in Lincolnshire I had a lovely
| rosemary hedge. It needed to be chopped once a year and then proceeded to
| bush up beautifully. I have lost my rosemary every winter in Scotland and
| this year I overwintered it in the cold frame in a pot. Some bits are brown
| but the rest looks ok

I can't keep mine going above about 5 years. It is very prone to
root rots etc. as it gets older, and is supposed to do a lot better
in really poor soil. I keep my rosemaries going by layering, until
I forget.


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