PLANTS ORDERED TODAY WILL BEGIN SHIPPING LATE SEPTEMBER, 2023
Rosemary, Upright (Rosmarinus officinalis) potted plant, organic
$11.00
Family: Mint (Lamiaceae)
Hardy to Zones 6 to 12
(Upright Rosemary, incorrectly renamed Salvia rosmarinus) Woody perennial. Native to the Mediterranean. Traditional usage (TWM): circulation stimulant and antioxidant. Prefers full sun and dryish soils. Space plants 2 to 4 feet apart. Grows 3 feet tall. Flowers blue-purple. Tuscan blue is a densely leaved, multi-stemmed bush that smells excellently. Space plants 3 to 4 feet apart.
Potted plant, Certified Organically Grown
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Richo Cech –
hi dawn, not so common unless you’re in too cold of a zone. It is important to accomodate them gradually to full-sun position but once planted usually pretty solid. Organic plants from us may act differently from boxstore clones. if you want to give me more specifics i’ll try to help, or maybe just buy one of our sturdy transplants and we’ll fall ship it and you can go that way. richo
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Eimi –
Hi Richo, can this rosemary withstand mild/light freeze? All the rosemary plants I get locally in TX can’t handle a few days of freeze at all… I would love to have rosemary in ground in my herb garden… Thank you much for always answering my questions!
Eimi
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Richo Cech –
Hello Eimi, Thanks for writing. The upright form of rosemary is more cold tolerant than the prostrate. I wonder why you find it so very cold intolerant, because here in our submontane southern oregon we got a lot of frost down to 20 degrees many days a winter and yet our rosemary doesn’t suffer. I do find that it can really go downhill when taken from a shaded greenhouse and set right to the landscape. I’ve learned that myself the hard way. And now that I think of it they do tend to get funky in the winter but usually if you ignore it they recover. Its a bit odd for an EO herb in that it really is healthier during cool weather of spring and fall, which you may not have, so much, in Texas. But I’ve seen exceptional ones in New Mexico, which is right next door. My advice is to be careful to really accomodate the plant to full sun at transplant, and also to make sure it is well rooted before subjected to frost. Keep it trimmed back and mulch with sand or pumice. Um, we just sold out of our mature seedgrown stock on this and are working up the cuttings we made last fall. Check back with us in September, we’ll re-enable at that time.
Richo
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Eimi –
Ah dang it! I had the upright rosemary in my cart and now it’s sold out 😭. I had been getting starter plants from local stores and planted them in a raised garden bed. They grew beautifully until the short freeze/ice storm we had this past winter (the ice storm actually did quite a bit of damages even to our trees). They lost all the leaves and haven’t had any new growth since then. I don’t know if they are actual dead but don’t know if they will recover either. I was surprised by their cold intolerance too, because all my other herbs (thyme, savory, oregano, sage, parsley, mint and chives) survived the ice storm and thriving now. If my rosemary aren’t dead, and if you know of ways to revive or boost them, I’d greatly appreciate some advice. Thank you so much again!
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Richo Cech –
Hello Eimi,
There are a lot of different cultivars of Rosemary, and some are more frost tolerant than others. Many herbs offered in big-box stores are grown in commercial greenhouses, jacked up on commercial fertilizers, and look great when you first get them but soon go downhill when planted to an organic garden (although some do fine). If you can find the variety “arp,” this is among the most cold-tolerant. Richo
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Carole –
what size is the planted pot that is shipped?
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Richo Cech –
hi carole, right now, about 4 weeks bigger than the primary photo for the item. r
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Crystal (verified owner) –
I have an upright rosemary, can they easily be propagated from cutting?
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Admin Richo Cech –
For you, I think, the easiest way of making more plants would be something called LAYERING. You take one or more of the bottom branches, and without removing them from the plant, strip off the bark and lower leaves from the base of the branch, at the spot where you can push it down and contact the soil, and then stake it down and cover it with a little soil. After the branch throws roots into the soil, you can cut it off from the mother and repot it to a gallon and you’re off. This process is illustrated in my book “the medicinal herb grower” and works really well for upright rosemary. Use something like a tent stake or a piece of stiff wire bent into a U.
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