Rosemary madness!

[Bonsai Nut]

After the recent thread we had about rosemary, I was at the garden center today to pick up some organic fertilizer, and I thought I'd pick up a rosemary to play with.






Fun little project, but I didn't have to guts to cut it back as far as I wanted on all branches (being concerned about killing the tree or killing the branch). Additionally I was reminded how brittle these branches can be. I'll wait until Spring to pot it up in a mesh pot, and hopefully will get a flush of new growth so I can shorten some of the thick branches a little more.

 

[fredman]

Yeah that brings back wonderful memories. I had something similar. Played with the top side for sometime. Made it beautiful. Had so much potential. All the while I was to afraid to take it out the pot and downsize it. I eventually gathered the guts. Took it out and trimmed away less than half. It started its decline hallway in the growing season. I gave up on them. Cant take the hurt...
I wish you all the best with this. I'm sure you can do a better job of it than me.... Please keep this updated.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

Yeah that brings back wonderful memories. I had something similar. Played with the top side for sometime. Made it beautiful. Had so much potential. All the while I was to afraid to take it out the pot and downsize it. I eventually gathered the guts. Took it out and trimmed away less than half. It started its decline hallway in the growing season. I gave up on them. Cant take the hurt...
I wish you all the best with this. I'm sure you can do a better job of it than me.... Please keep this updated.

I will freely admit I have trouble with rosemary and lavender. They are almost native here - the more you abuse them, the more they like it. Full sun, no water - they thrive. But cut them hard, or mess with their roots, and they get very angry

I'll see how it goes. They definitely like free-draining / dry soil so I am making sure it is in a spot where it won't get too much water.

 

[Smoke]

For me that would be dead in a month. I've never had any luck cutting them back hard.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

For me that would be dead in a month. I've never had any luck cutting them back hard.

The only luck I have had with lavender is to cut them back in the late Fall / December time frame. I have had landscape lavender for two or three years that is thriving - and if I cut it back 50% at the wrong time of the year the whole thing crashes on me.

 

[Smoke]

Never had lavender. Tried the rosemary many years ago and never tried them again. They too were in five gallon cans. I know some guys here that have some really nice ones though. Probably pinch all the time in small bites.

 

[wireme]

After the recent thread we had about rosemary, I was at the garden center today to pick up some organic fertilizer, and I thought I'd pick up a rosemary to play with.

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Fun little project, but I didn't have to guts to cut it back as far as I wanted on all branches (being concerned about killing the tree or killing the branch). Additionally I was reminded how brittle these branches can be. I'll wait until Spring to pot it up in a mesh pot, and hopefully will get a flush of new growth so I can shorten some of the thick branches a little more.

Throw'er into the fall contest!

Or maybe you've got something else up your sleeve?

 

[Carol 83]

After the recent thread we had about rosemary, I was at the garden center today to pick up some organic fertilizer, and I thought I'd pick up a rosemary to play with.

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Fun little project, but I didn't have to guts to cut it back as far as I wanted on all branches (being concerned about killing the tree or killing the branch). Additionally I was reminded how brittle these branches can be. I'll wait until Spring to pot it up in a mesh pot, and hopefully will get a flush of new growth so I can shorten some of the thick branches a little more.

Show off! lol .

 

[Tycoss]

I once had a shohin rosemary. beautiful plant, with twisting shari. my daughter liked the taste of it's leaves and defoliated it completely and ate all the leaves. It never recovered. One of the hazards of keeping edible bonsai with five year olds in the house. I'd love to try it again.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

Show off! lol .

I'm not at all happy with the branches - some are very clearly not wired or bent correctly - big loopy bends instead of sharp changes in direction. Some branches I simply couldn't move at all - at the risk of breaking them. I have to hope the tree survives and throws out new growth so that I can continue to swap out old, thick "bad" branches for news ones that are trained properly from the beginning. But this is as far as I felt I could take it in one go... and even now as you can tell from the conversation there is some question of whether it will survive. They are just really touchy to being worked aggressively.

 

[Vin]

Very nice find! Every time I visit an old nursery I look for Rosemary. I have yet to find any with a substantial trunk so I'll just continue to try and grow my own for now. One of the ones I have in the ground has about an inch and half trunk at the moment. When it reaches a solid two inches I'll take it out of the ground and see what happens. Here are some planted as landscape at a local restaurant with some nice size trunks:



And here is what I've been looking for, lol:

 

[Carol 83]

I'm not at all happy with the branches - some are very clearly not wired or bent correctly - big loopy bends instead of sharp changes in direction. Some branches I simply couldn't move at all - at the risk of breaking them. I have to hope the tree survives and throws out new growth so that I can continue to swap out old, thick "bad" branches for news ones that are trained properly from the beginning. But this is as far as I felt I could take it in one go... and even now as you can tell from the conversation there is some question of whether it will survive. They are just really touchy to being worked aggressively.

Although yours may be a bit better than mine (lol) I don't see any flowers

 

[Bonsai Nut]

Although yours may be a bit better than mine (lol) I don't see any flowers

I cut them all off But they were there! Cornflower blue color.

 

[Carol 83]

I cut them all off But they were there! Cornflower blue color.

If you say so......

 

[Bonsai Nut]

If you say so......

Tough crowd

 

[Carol 83]

Tough crowd

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OK, I give. Just playin'.

 

[Smoke]

Tough crowd

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Now you know what Trump feels like!

 

[RileyJFDB13]

If you are located in southern California I know a nursery where you get extremely large Rosemary . Here's one that I have, extremely hard to repot and I'm afraid to try it with this one so we'll see how it goes but here's one in a 15 gallon pot I bought

 

[RileyJFDB13]

 

[hemmy]

If you are located in southern California I know a nursery where you get extremely large Rosemary . Here's one that I have, extremely hard to repot and I'm afraid to try it with this one so we'll see how it goes but here's one in a 15 gallon pot I bought

I am! Nursery name? Pretty please!