I have a herb growing in my garden and I haven't a clue what it is
(but it smells lovely!)

Could someone identify it, please?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85947342@N00/1391956438/

Many thanks!

Derek

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I have a herb growing in my garden and I haven't a clue what it is
(but it smells lovely!)

Could someone identify it, please?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85947342@N00/1391956438/

Many thanks!

Derek



Looks like Rosemary to me. Does it flower like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary

It's been there for years but has never flowered, unfortunately.

But yes, it looks exactly like that (without the flowers).

Many thanks!

Derek

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It's been there for years but has never flowered, unfortunately.




How big is it? Maybe it needs some trimming. I know Rosemary can grow
very large but perhaps a little shock to it's system might make it flower.

It might need a change of location, too.

I miss my Rosemary. I left mine behind when I moved so I never got to own
it for longer than a summer. I wanted to know what would happen to it a
few years down the line...

Do you use it when cooking? Fresh rosemary is great in lots of meat
dishes. Use it more sparingly than dried until you get an idea of how
strong it is and how much you like it. We used it for crock-pot roasts and
the flavor was just wonderful.

It's been there for years but has never flowered, unfortunately.

Probably too shady (as far as I can tell from the photo).

I wouldn't try to "fix" this by doing anything to your existing plant.
Rosemary can be kind of finicky about where it deigns to grow (and
overwinter), so I'd just put up with a non-flowering plant (and start
from a cutting if you want to try putting one in a sunnier spot - read
up on how to root Rosemary cuttings). There isn't any especially
compelling reason why you need your rosemary to flower; it is an
attractive plant with or without the flowers.

On Sep 16, 8:45?am, wrote:
I have a herb growing in my garden and I haven't a clue what it is
(but it smells lovely!)

Could someone identify it, please?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85947342@N00/1391956438/

If you don't know what it is how can you say it's an herb, and I
wouldn't assume a culinary herb unless you can describe how it smells
better than "lovely". Have you tasted it, you'd know rosemary right
away. At first glance those long narrow leaves look needlelike so
they somehat resemble rosemary needles but I think not. Rosemary is
bushier and dosen't branch like that and would have bark, nor are
their needles on its primary branches. And then again there are other
plants in that picture, perhaps I'm focusing on the wrong one...
there's one there that sure looks like thyme at first glance but now
I'm leaning more torwards pyrocantha, but perhaps not. Your photo is
kind of crowded and doesn't depict detail very well... you need to
also include a tight close up of whichever plant your talking about.
It would also help to know what planting zone you're in.

On Sep 16, 8:52?am, wrote:
It's been there for years but has never flowered, unfortunately.

That's difficult to believe, doesn't look like any fern to me, I'm
sure that plant must flower, you just haven't noticed.

Sheldon expounded:

On Sep 16, 8:52?am, wrote:
It's been there for years but has never flowered, unfortunately.

That's difficult to believe, doesn't look like any fern to me, I'm
sure that plant must flower, you just haven't noticed.

No, it isn't difficult to believe, it may be just cold enough to kill
the flower buds, as can happen with many woody plants.
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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Sheldon wrote in news:1189959368.246740.36340
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On Sep 16, 8:45?am, wrote:
I have a herb growing in my garden and I haven't a clue what it is
(but it smells lovely!)

Could someone identify it, please?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85947342@N00/1391956438/

If you don't know what it is how can you say it's an herb, and I
wouldn't assume a culinary herb unless you can describe how it smells
better than "lovely". Have you tasted it, you'd know rosemary right
away. At first glance those long narrow leaves look needlelike so
they somehat resemble rosemary needles but I think not. Rosemary is
bushier and dosen't branch like that and would have bark, nor are
their needles on its primary branches. And then again there are other
plants in that picture, perhaps I'm focusing on the wrong one...
there's one there that sure looks like thyme at first glance but now
I'm leaning more torwards pyrocantha, but perhaps not. Your photo is
kind of crowded and doesn't depict detail very well... you need to
also include a tight close up of whichever plant your talking about.
It would also help to know what planting zone you're in.



The simple answer, of course, was: Rosemary.

On Sep 16, 7:18?pm, FragileWarrior
wrote:
Sheldon wrote in news:1189959368.246740.36340
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On Sep 16, 8:45?am, wrote:
I have a herb growing in my garden and I haven't a clue what it is
(but it smells lovely!)

Could someone identify it, please?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85947342@N00/1391956438/

If you don't know what it is how can you say it's an herb, and I
wouldn't assume a culinary herb unless you can describe how it smells
better than "lovely". Have you tasted it, you'd know rosemary right
away. At first glance those long narrow leaves look needlelike so
they somehat resemble rosemary needles but I think not. Rosemary is
bushier and dosen't branch like that and would have bark, nor are
their needles on its primary branches. And then again there are other
plants in that picture, perhaps I'm focusing on the wrong one...
there's one there that sure looks like thyme at first glance but now
I'm leaning more torwards pyrocantha, but perhaps not. Your photo is
kind of crowded and doesn't depict detail very well... you need to
also include a tight close up of whichever plant your talking about.
It would also help to know what planting zone you're in.

The simple answer, of course, was: Rosemary.

What's with the commas and colon? Do you stutter.

That plant is not rosemary, simple.

"Sheldon" wrote in message

That plant is not rosemary, simple.

Do keep posting Sheldon. The egg on your face is a joy to behold! It IS
rosemary.

FarmI wrote:
"Sheldon" wrote in message

That plant is not rosemary, simple.

Do keep posting Sheldon. The egg on your face is a joy to behold! It IS
rosemary.


It *would* help to have a better staged picture with something in it to
define scale. There are many plants in view. The tall rosemary-like
plant seems to be fronted by a similar looking plant but with somewhat
broader leaves. The tall rosemary plant also appears *very* tall and
more rangey than a rosemary would usually be. Yup, a better picture with
something for scale would have been helpful. If it is a rosemary, it's
not like a rosemary I've seen.

Sheldon wrote in news:1190082725.675644.321460
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On Sep 16, 7:18?pm, FragileWarrior
wrote:
Sheldon wrote in news:1189959368.246740.36340
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On Sep 16, 8:45?am, wrote:
I have a herb growing in my garden and I haven't a clue what it is
(but it smells lovely!)

Could someone identify it, please?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/85947342@N00/1391956438/

If you don't know what it is how can you say it's an herb, and I
wouldn't assume a culinary herb unless you can describe how it
smells
better than "lovely". Have you tasted it, you'd know rosemary right
away. At first glance those long narrow leaves look needlelike so
they somehat resemble rosemary needles but I think not. Rosemary is
bushier and dosen't branch like that and would have bark, nor are
their needles on its primary branches. And then again there are
other
plants in that picture, perhaps I'm focusing on the wrong one...
there's one there that sure looks like thyme at first glance but now
I'm leaning more torwards pyrocantha, but perhaps not. Your photo
is
kind of crowded and doesn't depict detail very well... you need to
also include a tight close up of whichever plant your talking about.
It would also help to know what planting zone you're in.

The simple answer, of course, was: Rosemary.

What's with the commas and colon? Do you stutter.

No, I did it to annoy anal-punctuation-retentives. Thanks for letting me
know it worked.


That plant is not rosemary, simple.


The owner of the plant says it IS -- even simpler.

expounded:

If I remember the photo, I think what you may have is a Japanese yew.
Please repost the photo's.

V, it was definitely a rosemary. Some can grow in a columnular shape
such as the one the OP posted. I've got one myself out in my garden.
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
e-mail address is not checked
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