Rosmarinus officinalis "Tuscan Blue" prophouse-fall-2027 and a hard late-winter prune

and a hard late-winter prune keeps an old plant dense and full of bloom

What happens in April is generally someone else's problem

nectar-rich flowers draw bees

Each pale yellow flower

among the first shrubs to bloom as the woods wake

Rosmarinus officinalis "Tuscan Blue" prophouse-fall-2027 and a hard late-winter prune'Tuscan Blue' is the robust, broad leaved aristocrat of the upright rosemaries, a fast, strongly vertical form grown as much for the deep blue flowers as for the kitchen. Thicker in leaf and richer in bloom than the common rosemary, the cultivar is the same Mediterranean herb, Rosmarinus officinalis, now moved by botanists into the genus Salvia as Salvia rosmarinus, though few cooks will trouble to relearn the name. Rosemary takes its name from the