Re: Rosemary
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- Subject: Re: Rosemary
- From: E* F*
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:03:20 -0000
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Olivier, your stated varieties won't take frost will they, except perhaps
Tuscan Blue?
Of the less hardy, you mention the most dramatic - Vicomte de Nouailles
Edward Faridany
Sussex, England dry-ish hott-ish summers, wet mild-ish winters
----- Original Message -----
From: Olivier Filippi <olivier.filippi@wanadoo.fr>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: 22 November 1999 18:10
Subject: Re: Rosemary
> Hi Helene,
>
> Lots of rosemaries in my garden, one of the best features of the
> mediterranean garden in winter. Here rosemaries are covered with flowers
in
> early Autumn, and again in full bloom right in the middle of the sad cold
> windy winter, in February and March.
>
> My favourite are the ground cover types like the cultivars 'Boule' with
its
> very neat mound like shape, 'Punta di Canelle', with dark blue flowers,
> 'Montagnette', with white flowers. I also like the white upright form (R.
o.
> var. albiflorus) and the different pink cultivars ('Majorcan Pink',
'Vicomte
> de Noailles', 'Rosemarey'). My best upright blue are 'Tuscan Blue' and
> 'Minerve', with nice large flowers.
>
> And I'm quite proud of the two cuttings (still grown in pots with lovely
> care) we brougt back from the Beni Snassen mountains in Morocco, of
> Rosmarinus eriocalyx, a different species with greyish leaves and small
> flowers.
>
> Olivier
>
>
