HERB - Heartsease and Rosemary
NIKI ARMANASCO
narmanas at legalaid.qld.gov.au
Wed Sep 1 19:02:09 PDT 1999
Sorry if this appears twice, I tried to send this yesterday but I have not seen it appear....
Greetings to the list,
Heartsease:
I was recently gifted 4 heartsease plants, 3 with yellow and pale purple flowers and one with deep purple flowers.
Does anyone have any information about this plant? I have heard that you can eat the flowers and that the rest of the plant can be used for "medicinal uses" but I havent found any specific information about it.
Rosemary:
I have ongoing problems with Rosemary and I would like to know if anyone has had similar things happen.
I have one Rosemary plant (blue/purple flowers) that I have had for about 5 years. It has been in 3 different garden beds in that time (at different houses) and also a few different containers. It doesnt matter what happens to this plant but it just stays alive through drought and flood and just plain being ignored.
I have NEVER had this type of luck with any other Rosemary plant - they all die. I bought two lovely ones which would have had nice pink flowers if they hadnt died within a month of my planting them in the same bed as the other rosemary plant (big bed lots of room between them).
I have just bought two more rosemary plants from the Organic Growers Fair at the weekend. They appear to be a different type of rosemary as the leaves are longer, paler and closer together.
Does anyone have any advice for me on how I should treat them so that they survive? If I dont have any luck with these ones I am going to concentrate on taking cuttings from the one I already had to see if they have the same amount of perseverance.
Thanks in advance
Morna of River Haven
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