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Growing a Rosemary bush
On 19 Mar, 08:13, Sacha wrote:
On 2010-03-18 21:30:33 +0000, "graham" said: "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2010-03-18 17:54:43 +0000, "graham" said: "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2010-03-18 13:12:58 +0000, "dido22" said: Hello I have grown Rosemary in a large pot for many years during the summer months, and have always thrown it away late Autumn, *then bought a new plant next spring. I've just bought a new plant ( 'upright Rosemary' ) and I read on its label that it can be grown into a bush up to 2 metres high !! Has anyone grown a Rosemary bush before?, does it survive the winter?, does it smell & taste as good as a new plant does ? Thanks KK It may be Miss Jessop's Upright and some people use it as an informal hedge. *I think 2 metres is pushing it a bit, though. *Where do you live?! We have rosemarys that survive all winters, including this one and it's usually regarded as pretty hardy. *It's a shrub so take cuttings and propagate new ones but there's no reason at all to throw it away each year. -- Sacha, Do the different varieties smell different? *I ask this because the rosemary that I'm growing in a pot in my kitchen window has a stonger "medicinal" smell than usual. Graham Not that I know of, Graham. *What medium is it growing in? I re-potted it in a standard potting soil which has quite a high "fibre" content, presumably sphagnum. We have several rosemaries and they just smell of rosemary. * The differences are in flower colour and growth habit and tenderness, too. *Do you know which yours is? No. *I think a lot is grown from seeds from the UK. *I bought the plant at the farmers' market from someone selling herbs in pots. *My ~20yr old plant had died and I bought the replacement on a whim. *However, I've never seen different named varieties in the nurseries. *The plant breeders tend to concentrate on breeding hardy varieties of the bigger stuff such as tree fruits. I wonder - and this is pure supposition on my part - if growing it indoors in Canadian winters might affect it through lack of sunlight? It's in a south facing bay window so is little different from a greenhouse. I'm also on approximately the same latitude as Barnstaple! *It will be outside during the summer. Barnstaple! *You're practically a Devonian. *;-) Perhaps it's age, *mine*!! *Claret doesn't smell like the clarets I drank in my 30s {:-( This is true! *Things do seem to change when perhaps it's we who change! Could the rosemary's normal flavour become more concentrated, as in a dried herb? I never dry it and never use dried rosemary. *I would have thought the flavour wouldn't be as strong in dried. On the whole, the general assumption is that dried herbs are stronger in flavour, more concentrated but I have only used fresh rosemary from our garden, with the exception of a herb mix I bought in Crete years ago. As a side note, I'd like to grow some heather. *Is it available as seed? Graham Yes, it can be grown from seed but I've never done it, so I don't know what the success rate is. -- Sachawww.hillhousenursery.com Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics. South Devon- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I can't see why anyone would want to grow it from seed, Cuttings take so easily. Just as an experiment I bought a packet of fresh rosemary from Tesco, it was "yellow stickied" so was not the freshest, and put all the stems in as cuttings, the strike rate was well over 50%, giving me around 12 plants for the princly sum of 10p. Re the flavour, strength, I would have put it down to the weather, in dry sunny times the oil would be more concentrated in the leaves. David Hill |
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