Our cold front is still with us. The days are sunny and pleasant enough for those fortunate enough to have the leisure to enjoy them. Once the sun goes down the temperatures drop however, and we will have another freezing night tonight.
I am reminded of my schoolboy days when I would bundle up for the morning walk to school and then forget and leave my coat in the locker when I left to come home. How many others remember doing that?
There is a big rosemary plant between our driveway and the front door. It’s about three feet high and at least four feet in diameter. I like to brush against it as I walk by. Sometimes Tricia picks a branch to cook with the chicken or with potatoes. Last week she made sweet potatoes with rosemary that were especially good. This rosemary bush has been blooming now for several weeks. They are small flowers and tend to be buried down in the shadows of the leaves where you don’t see them much. I haven’t seen many insects around them. Rosemary tends to repel a lot of insects I hear.
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I have tried and tried to get my Rosemary plant to grow bigger, but it stays at 8″ it does bloom though. I saw an herb farm that had a whole hedge of rosemary. WOW smelled like spaghetti there!
Can I just say again how refreshing your pictures are, Bill? Such a breath of fresh air during these long, dark days of winter here.
I took our garbage out back today for pick-up tomorrow and it’s as though summer is frozen in time out there. My yard swing is covered in snow and ice and my little miniature spruce (3 feet tall) is desecated.
Our winters are incredibly tough on our plants and only the hardiest survive here. We’re Zone 2.
My rosemary winters over on an unheated sunporch. The temperatures in this space usually hover at or above the freezing mark, making it at least a full zone warmer than the zone five outside. This year, however, the cold snap has been so low and so long that I brought all the pots into the house (not before losing two pelagoriums to being frozen stiff.)
I’ve not had much luck with rosemary in the house. I don’t know why, but they tend to die when they are brought in. So this year I will wait and see.
Up here I find the rosemary blooms the last weeks of February of the first week of March, making a welcome promise of the spring that is just around the corner by then.
I hope this year she lasts and blooms for me. Only time will tell.
That’s odd. I have a plant on the side of my house about as big as yours and it’s not blooming. I went out and checked when I read your post. It does smell great however.
lovely! I love rosemary too — so lovely and delicious!
The sight of those flowers and sprigs are making hunger for a nice leg of lamb!
Are rosemary flowers edible?
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Starting to bloom?
Bill up in North Texas has posted a picture of his Rosemary blooming. I went out and checked my bush which is about the same size as his and nada. I would think mine would bloom first since we are…