Until I had these two giant rosemary plants, I never knew rosemary bloomed! I’ve always had little pots of it or a small plant in the ground but these big things get covered in lavender blossoms.
Rosemary
I keep saying I need to research a bit and see if I need to cut it back. It’s truly getting a bit out of hand. They’re bigger than the fig tree near them and I’d rather have a big fig tree and smaller rosemary shrubs but I think, not knowing how big that rosemary was going to get, I may have planted the fig tree too close to them.
We’ll see what happens in the spring. If the long range forecast is right (it never is), it looks like we could have lots of ice and some very cold nights this year and that might be the end of either the rosemary or the fig tree so I won’t worry about cutting anything back til spring.
Carol says
Yes, here in Texas, rosemary will take over if you don’t keep it in check every 2-3 years. I cut mine back severely every other year or at most 3 years. It will take over anything nearby. And I don’t think you can kill it. We are about 150 miles north of you and a freeze hasn’t gotten mine yet. It’s so hardy, trim away! They look so much better.
Jean Truchan says
We are at 3600 ft elevation here in Globe, AZ and it gets really cold during the winter, but we cut our rosemary bushes back twice a year, but no more than a third of the bush each time. Ours are 10 yrs old now with no problems from the pruning. The bees love the nectar from the blooms, too!
Sherrill Pecere says
I had a really big rosemary plant at my last house (lived there 10 years) and it never got gigantic and it never bloomed (wonder if that’s a male/female thing). I can’t stand the taste of rosemary but I would walk by it and run my hand across it for the aroma. We had some cold, snowy, icy winters and it was always fine.
JudyL says
Yes, even though I love the taste, if I didn’t, I think I’d still make sure I brushed up against it every time I walked by it.
Kim says
Try putting some of that Rosemary under some meat on your BBQ when you cook it.
Anna-Karin Larsson says
I have a Rosmary in a big pot here in Sweden, it must be kept in the house during winter
but it blossom every spring early. I buy a glutenfree crispbread made by Semper with rosmary in and it tastes wonderful.
Rebecca in SoCal says
The rosemary bushes at the retreat center that I mentioned are kept very well trimmed in square hedges (and still have blossoms). I wouldn’t try to get that all at once, though!