Rosemary
A year back, I got three cuttings of rosemary from the plant on a visit to the greenhouse at the University of Minnesota. One died from neglect, but the others went into pots and grew roots. One of them grew so well that its branches are just as big as the original cutting. It’s in a large pot to support its abundant growth.
The other went into sand and grew thin. Its shoots grow thick and short, because not much sap gets through the branches. It hasn’t got enough growth to use for cooking, but the thick shoots coming out of the gangly branches look weird and interesting.
I planted cuttings from the bigger plant. This is one from a tiny stem at the bottom of the plant. I guess our native soil does it well. It looks hardly needly enough to be a rosemary.
Here’s another cutting. Apparently pine mulch is not the preferred soil, though it suits our blueberries, which thrive in acid soil. Probably this one will be even tinier than the one that grew in sand.
