Rosemary blossoms
Oct 1st, 2007 by Julie Kirkwood
The flowers outside may be fading, but indoors I’ve got some spring-like flowers growing.
This is a crazy creeping rosemary plant that I bought from a garden center for my garden last summer. It got so big in the garden that on a whim I dug it up and dropped it in a pot to bring indoors for the winter. (Much later a garden expert told me that usually rosemary doesn’t survive that sort of thing, so sometimes it’s an advantage to know nothing about gardening).
This summer I put my potted rosemary on the deck for sun. I put a bunch of other house plants on the deck, too, but they got sunburned — who knew that could happen? (everybody, right? Oops.)
The rosemary didn’t get burned, but it suffered in the dry summer heat and I thought maybe I had pushed it too far. But as soon as the fall weather set in it perked up. Then the blossoms opened! I had no idea rosemary plants blossom like this … and in the fall, no less.
I’ve searched the Web for information about rosemary blossoms and didn’t find much. The photo doesn’t do it justice — those flowers are a pretty light purple against the deep green backdrop. I love the color combination so much that it makes me want to knit something to match. Anybody have a pattern for knitting a plant sun umbrella?
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1Leigha said:
I have rosemary all around my house, used as a ground
cover. Prior, it showed beautiful blue blossoms and there
were many bees attending all the time. Lately, though,
the blue blossoms have disappeared, as have the bees
(mostly) and all there is is some sad white blossoms.Ideas?
L
