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  • Babru
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    Maybe you should persuade yourself that you don't like rosemary, Marb67....

    Mine grows fine outside in a hot spot, but I'm thinking of pulling it out as it's absolutely infested with rosemary beetle, which I don't want spreading to my lavender hedge. I keep cutting off branches covered in beetles, but more appear, and now I've seen a beetle on my Russian sage too. Yeech!

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  • Plot70
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    I have never had trouble with rosemary.
    I got one from a garden center and knocked it out of the pot and put it in the clay over limestone soil and it got to chest height before I took cuttings and grubbed it out.
    I grow it as a hedge between our front garden and next door and it flowers every year.
    Years ago I took seed from one in a council border and grew it in an inside out car tire and it flowered and self seeded into the top of a brick wall and hung over the back garden of a pub with lots of flowers. It appeared to do fine in old crumbling cement.
    The one in the ground by my front door got crushed a couple of years ago when a visitor got drunk and fell on it. I just pruned the broken bits off and it grew back fast.
    I must take some more cuttings as the ones I took to the allotment did not like being transplanted in all that wet weather.

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  • Marb67
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    Well despite keeping over winter, dry in the greenhouse 2 more plants have died, as well as the cutting I took and kept. I have Rosemary seeds, shall I try those instead ?

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  • Marb67
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    Not overwatered and kept in well dained compost.

    The ipad is the same as I have used here before when the site had no issues. The image file sizes are small taken with it. Even when cropped they still fail here.

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  • SarrissUK
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    I think it's worth repotting and put in more drainage, and make sure there's nothing to pool the water under the pot, so no 'saucer' if you like.

    I rescued mine when it got too wet when I moved the location of the pot, by repotting with lots more grit.

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  • Greenleaves
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    As Sarriss says, it sounds like root rot because of over watering. As there is no cure, it will problably all die in the end. Time to start again I am affraid Marb

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  • SarrissUK
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    Black bits on a rosemary usually means it's too wet. Could you repot it with more drainage in the pot, like grit? They don't really need a lot of fertiliser, but absolutely hate having roots too damp.

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  • Jungle Jane
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    iPad photos fail to upload when the file size is too big. Edit the photo & cut a bit off the top & bottom,hope that helps.
    Can you cut the black bits off? My rosemary’s quite leggy,it’s been in the same pot for about 3-4 yrs but always flowers it’s a good low maintenance plant but I might repot it one day & maybe bury a bit of the woody stem if that’s ok to do. Have you given your plant any fertiliser? Ive only used seaweed on mine but it must like it.
    Last edited by Jungle Jane; 30-03-2019, 11:13 AM.

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  • Marb67
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    Half of the leaves are healthy green and the tips are black

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  • SarrissUK
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    My rosemary is about 15 years old now, and it's old and gnarly and several times suffered with root rot in its pot. I've repotted it and put more and more gravel into it, and it seems to love it the more gravel it gets. It's the same with thyme.

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  • bikermike
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    I have no luck with Rosemary in the kitchen. I think I should take some cuttings and grow more outside.

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  • Nicos
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    I've come back from 2weeks away to find a massive dieback of my huuuge shrub. Probably about 1/5 has died back.
    The rest of the shrub is in full flower and looks very healthy.
    Bizzare!

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  • DannyK
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    Did you look at the potting medium when you bought the plants? I've not bought rosemary for years, but I've found when buying cacti that some retailers use peaty composts, which are OK in industrially controlled houses but deadly for us amateurs as they act as poultices and rot the roots. If you find peat next time, buy somewhere else or clean it off roots and repot 25% grit 75% JI No1.

    Do you need to keep it indoors? Surely its hardy there. Survives deep snow here. Far better light outside.

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  • farendwoman
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    Originally posted by Rocketron View Post
    Is it a Beagle?
    Had to think about this comment for a while before I got it .
    Poor old smoking beagles!

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  • SarrissUK
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    If it's going black and spongy, it's probably root rot which is caused by too much water. Is there a way to restrict how much water it gets?

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