I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum for my question but since rosemary might wind up in potage I thought you'd let me ask here.

I have the regular, common or garden variety of rosemary and it's doing quite well despite the fact that it gets little care or attention. My wife has come home from her job with a sprig of rosemary from the garden there and the flower is bluer.

Before I put mine out and start again, can anyone tell me whether, if I improve the nutriments etc. and actually water it, the colours might deepen?

Any advice gratefully received!

corpus

Don't water it! Rosemary likes it hot and dry. Is it safe to nibble on the sprig your wife brought you?

If it is, I would taste test it against what you have... there's a lot of varieties out there but there doesn't seem to be munch sense to the labels you see. I usually rely on my sense of taste, you can taste the difference in the different varieties.

If it tastes different, see if your wife can find out what variety they planted. As I said before, the labeling system seems half hazard, so you are probably better off mail ordering it from a herb specialty catalog if you can find out what it is.

Thanks for the tip - much appreciated. I'll ask the spouse to bring some more home and we'll do the tast test!

Greetings,
corpus