ROSEMARY IN ROME
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: ROSEMARY IN ROME
- From: E*@agora.stm.it
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 7:43:42 ITA
Alessandra Vinciguerra wrote:
> The long Rosemary hedge in the Bass garden is _very_ upright. It came
with
> no name, and we have two distinct clones, one with darker blue flowers
than
> the other. They are both in bloom now. At Villa Aurelia we have two
distinct
> creeping ones (again, no name) one being mound forming, really weeping
(this
> is the one, Helene, that you wanted to take cuttings from) the other more
> disordered -sort of fireworks shape, if you know what I mean, and this
> should be the average Prostratus. I also have the srubby, upright withe
> flowered. As you can all understand, I haven't sorted out names and
vars,
> yet. Helene, didn't you say you would come again? You are welcome to take
> cuttings and photographs if you need them!
>
> Ciao, Alessandra
>
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To Alessandra and you all,
If anyone should come to Rome and wants to see a fine rosemary "impact",
Alessandra has created a Medit-rosemary-splash using R. prostratus along a
sloping drive, spilling in luxurious mounds over the low stone retainer
walls flanking it.
Here is rosemary at its best. It shares space with other Mediterranean
essences, and they create a varigated low free hedge which could not be
more agreeable.
At the American College, Alessandra has shown me the thick and compact
rosemary hedges which border the fruit tree spaces, and again, here the
rosemary is in it's proper element, doing just what it should.
Rosemary in our Rome garden shares space with roses in raised beds with
fair drainage. My 20 varities or so get far more water in the summer than
they should, but have survived for years, and as there is no poison in our
garden, we enjoy them for their dignified beauty as well as the delicious
flavours on our table.
Helene Pizzi
Lecturer and Garden Writer
Rome, Italy>
