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Related: About this forumI've grown and cooked with Rosemary for years, and have never seen a plant in bloom, before
Sorry it's not a better picture, but the flowers are small and very delicate. I wonder if I should pinch them?
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Sophia4
(3,515 posts)I grow lots of it in my front yard (as do many others here) in Southern California. It attracts bees and smells utterly divine. I go out and cut a sprig and put it in my cooking.
Love it. I'm glad your plant is blooming. It's wonderful, isn't it?
Siwsan
(26,286 posts)Sometimes I have horrible luck keeping it going, but this year has been a great year.
I keep sage, thyme, oregano and dill in pots, too, so I have fresh herbs all Winter long.
catbyte
(34,416 posts)However, as soon as I brought them inside when cold weather hit, my spoiled felines, Sammy & Otis, thought I had brought in fresh greenery just for them. When I woke up the next morning, the herbs were uprooted, dirt everywhere, and chewed to pieces, lol. Luckily they limited the carnage to the kitchen tile & didn't move the party to the carpet. Oh, well. At least my local grocer has a good selection of fresh, organic herbs in the produce department...
BTW, the weather is brutal! It's almost 1:00 p.m. in Lansing & still 8F outside. Brrrrrr...
Siwsan
(26,286 posts)My cats pretty much ignore my plants. They are a couple of weirdos, anyway, because they also refuse to eat anything but cat food. Oh, and albacore tuna. I never worry about leaving a plate full of food unattended. Sometimes I can get Sophie to eat a little chicken but Boudicca licks it and walks away. This might be because they were both rescued from a drug addicted horder, so they were never exposed to anything but the occasional dish of kitty kibble, if they could find it in the rubble. I think the woman existed on Oxycodone and oxygen.
Here's hoping we get to double digit temperatures, soon!!
CrispyQ
(36,490 posts)I don't know if impacts your herb, but I love the flowers!
WhiteTara
(29,719 posts)I love this plant so much.
Siwsan
(26,286 posts)I just love cooking with fresh herbs. The aromas are wonderful. I also keep a big French Lavender plant on the kitchen window sill. When I feel stressed, I just pick a small sprig and breathe deep.
dweller
(23,648 posts)but leave some to produce seed, you could pollinate them with a q-tip since indoors and no bees or butterflies to do the job
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)They bloom every spring, and I have to trim them with hedge shears. One is right by the front door, so I'm greeted with a little rosemary every time I come home.
Siwsan
(26,286 posts)When the sun heats up that little room, the scent is amazing. And I have a herb garden right outside of the front porch - sage, cilantro, basil, oregano, rosemary and thyme. Just coming up my front walk is appetite inducing.
hermetic
(8,310 posts)I use rosemary tea as a hair rinse. Here is my favorite go-to page for growing it, in case someone is interested in trying it.
http://veggieharvest.com/herbs/rosemary.html
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Even in a pot during the Texas summers and not watered for long periods of time it will survive. Planted in the ground it is almost bulletproof.
hermetic
(8,310 posts)Too dark, cold and snowy for pretty much anything to survive the winter. I brought in my rosemary plant in a pot this year but there just wasn't enough light so I harvested the whole thing. I'll buy another next spring and try again.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)shows off the dainty little flowers so beautifully. I love brushing by the shrubs to enjoy their fragrance, and they are pretty in bloom, but apparently it's been a long time since I actually stopped and looked at the flowers.
I'd let them finish blooming and then pinch back the young growing stems to encourage lower growth and avoid legginess.
Retrograde
(10,142 posts)Rosemary does very well in my Mediterranean climate - I wack the bushes by the sidewalk back when they get too tall to see over. The blossoms come in a variety of colors, from almost white to dark blue.
My sister has managed to overwinter rosemary in her garden south of Buffalo -3 feet of snow seems to be a good insulator!
Siwsan
(26,286 posts)My sage, cilantro, oregano and thyme survive the weather, just fine but I usually pot some up to get me through the Winter.