I bought a small Juvenile (A year or so at most with about 1 foot in height and 1.5 feet in width in some places) Rosemary Plant from the Butte College Horticulture club. It is, however, acting very Ivy-like and growing in odd directions, and I'd like to Clip off some of it's extenions and clean it up a bit. I want to know if clipping it down a bit would send it into shock and ultimately kill it.
Is there a botonist out there that knows more than the basics on rosemary?
2007-09-05 10:56:28 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
You didn't say what type rosemary. Bush or prostrate growing. If it wants to grow more horizontal than upright, if the new growth leans to the side, it could be prostrate.
Even upright rosemary is rather untamed. I wouldn't clip it back hard, just start taking tip cuttings. It's an evergreen shrub.......suited for outdoors......zone 5-6 to quite warm, like 10. Native to the Mediterranean, it requires well drained soil, plenty of light. Indoors it's only moderately happy, wanting to get outside with spring.
You said Butte College, so I'm assuming Montana........I don't know how cold you get in winter. Rosemaries handle single digit temps, but subzero........hmmm, maybe with plenty of mulch and cover. The needles dry off when burned by cold. Since the main growing centers are near the tips, it's not nice to freeze the plant back......it may not recover.
It flowers in late winter and continues off and on for many months. Don't be heavy handed with the fertilizer, in fact hold off more than usual.
2007-09-05 11:12:00 · answer #1 · answered by fluffernut 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your rosemary sounds like Rosemarinus officinalis which has stems that grows upright. Actually not only can you prune the rosemary but you can also propagate the cuttings you've taken.
Propagation: Rosemary is very easy to propagate from cuttings. Cuttings from the tips of branches will root in a glass of water, but they develop better roots if started in sand or a clean potting medium. Seeds take a long time to germinate and often produce plants that are not like the parent. Hardiness is generally USDA Zones 8 - 10. Rosemary's range is extended by the cultivar 'Arp', which is hardy to zone 7. However, if you have creeping rosemary which is prostrate or called Rosemary prostratis, it is a very tender plant (and I pruned mine way back, and it took over a year to get looking decent). This creeping rosemary is a tender perennial with fragrant evergreen foliage and pale blue summer flowers. Easy to grow in any sunny, well-drained location. Hardy to 5 degrees. Grows to a height of 2 to 3 feet trailing, space 15 inches apart. again)
2007-09-05 11:33:43 · answer #2 · answered by fair2midlynn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-18 01:44:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clip away, don't take more than 60 percent of the plant
2007-09-05 11:06:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Clip away...just don't get too crazy. I have to trim mine down at least every six months or it starts to take over the garden.
2007-09-05 12:43:00 · answer #5 · answered by Michael C 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course. You can go ahead and trim it up. Just don't take too much, and prune lightly.
2007-09-05 11:30:01 · answer #6 · answered by hopflower 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋