Prior to our house being completed we were caretakers of another home here on the island.
I took a small cutting and now it is about 2' x 2'.
My problem though is that we have tried twice to do a cutting for a friend and both times they have died.
They were in a mixture of peat moss, topsoil and sand. Does anyone have a clue as to what I am doing wrong?
ps. they get morning sun and shade the rest of the day as the mother plant thrives with that.
Advice on Rosemary needed
Try covering the pot your cutting is in with a plastic soda bottle or glass jar to keep the cutting and soil moist. Probably a little less sun would be good as well, as this plant doesn't yet have the root support that the parent has and needs more protection.
zone 11 - I can't even imagine! lol
Zone 11 is quite different than our house in Maryland on the Bay.
But then again one day we looked outside at all of the snow and said "the hell with this".
Now it is listening to blues on the beach.
ROTFL! As a resident of inland Maryland, I know just what you mean! My favorite area to live has been coastal GA, but the more planting and digging I do in our work-in-progress back yard, the more attached I get to our place here. However, I think DH has a pretty good idea of where we may head down the road when we retire... :-)
Hi Knot,
Last summer my husband and I spent 3 months in PR (only 1 week on Vieques), I was charmed by the horses roaming free on the island - beautiful!
About your Rosemary, if it's the trailing type, it's very easy to take a medium siced shoot that is still attached to the plant, peg it to the ground and cover a small section in the middle with soil, it will form roots while the mother plant is still supporting it. After the roots are formed clip it off and give it to your friend.
Good luck
Dove
I think the trailing rosmary is called Santa Barbara Rosemary. It makes a great ground cover.
:-)
The trailing types are lovely, but aren't winter-hardy in the north. I did manage to keep one alive for several years by growing it in a hanging basket & bringing it indoors to a south-facing window for the winter.
Hi Meadow,
It seems I always forget about zone challenges.
Dovey
Is this trailing Rosemary?
Looks like it to me. If you remove some of the mulch so one of the branchs has contact with the soil (I anchor it down and then cover it slightly) it will self root.
There is more info in the plant files
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/58699
Hi there! My Rosemary is an upright kind but I have rooted tons of cuttings by just placing a cutting in plain water in a blue tinted glass jar. I planted a whole row last year!
Good luck! OH and I love the trailing rosemary! One more thing I need! LOL!!
Nicole
I was losing the cuttings I tried to start, too, and then discovered that my rosemary (not a trailing type) will root its branches like what has been said above. Mine is a man-eater! ;^) It's gotten huge (3' tall by 6'+ from end to end) from one small little starter herb and now fills one corner of my garden. I purposely walk around that way so that I can run my hands over it. My friends, coworkers and neighbors love getting my little baggies of rosemary for cooking.