“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance.”
– Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Ophelia

This delightful herb will give you so much pleasure and it is an easy plant to grow, indoors, in a container, it wont mind.  A definite choice for your home herb garden.

Description
Rosemary Rosmarinus officinalisis is another member of the prodigious mint family, lamiaceae.  It is an evergreen perennial shrub with an ash-colored scaly bark and  long green needle-shaped  leaves growing in on opposite sides on the stem.  It will grow up to two meters high in warmer climes and less in colder areas.  There are a number of different species of rosemary some of which  are low growing and spread outwards rather than growing straight up.

Native to the Mediterranean part of Europe, rosemary appreciates full sun.   Much of the Mediterranean area has limited rainfall so the plant does not enjoy soggy feet, and probably the biggest threat to the plant is waterlogged soil which will rot the roots.  Depending on the species the plant may have different color flowers  ranging from light to dark blue, white or pink.

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