Beginner Gardening: overwintering Rosemary plants, 1 by tapla

tapla wrote:
I have several rosemary plants (4, I think) I'm growing on as potensai ..... that is, potential bonsai. They're all older than 5-7 years old, from the little started cuttings you so often see mixed with the herb bedding plants. They over-winter in the basement, under fluorescent lights at about 65*. I'm able to maintain the relative humidity at 55-60%. They do well, even though they don't start putting on much growth until after the vernal equinox.

Surprisingly, they do like a damp soil, but they don't tolerate wet feet, so a fast draining medium is best. I grow them in what has been labeled 'the gritty mix', which looks like the picture below. All of the many herbs I've grown in this soil do exceptionally well.

Al