Chef’s Choice Rosemary

Rosemary officinalis ‘Roman Beauty’ PP18192

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-11 Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Shrub

Height at Maturity: 12-18″

Width at Maturity: 18-24″

Spacing: 18″ for solid groundcover or hedge, 36″+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Mounding

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Violet-Blue

Flower Size: Small

Flowering Period: Spring

Flower Type: Single

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Greyish Blue-Green

Fragrant Foliage: Yes!

Berries: No

Berry Color: No

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well-drained moist to dry

Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.5 (Moderately Acid to Slightly Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention, Sensory Appeal

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect, Rabbit

Description

An outstanding new dwarf Rosemary plant selected and noted for its higher oil content and wonderful spicy flavor. With a compact, mounding habit, this one can be useful in the landscape as a border or groundcover but is also the Rosemary of choice for container, herb, and kitchen gardens. We’ve had it growing in a large pot in our gardens since 2016 and its doing great.

Landscape & Garden Uses

With a compact, mounding habit to only 12-18 inches tall and 18-24 inches wide, Chef’s Choice Rosemary is ideal for use in smaller garden spaces and container gardens. It is an excellent culinary herb and can be grown in a sunny or well-lit space in kitchen gardens. In larger landscape spaces it makes a beautiful groundcover or evergreen border. It also works well in pots, planters and other containers that can be placed on sunny patios, decks and other outdoor living spaces. A fine evergreen addition to herb gardens and in fragrance gardens, Asian gardens, cottage gardens, cut flower gardens, blue color theme gardens and the Xeriscape (low water needs).

Spacing: 18 inches apart for groundcover or low hedge; 5 feet or more apart for space between plants

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Rosemary plant variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Rosemary is easy to grow and appreciates well-drained soil and plenty of sun. Constantly soggy or wet soils can be problematic. Water as needed until fully established during its first year and then only occasionally as needed.

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The rosemary arrived in good condition and is thriving in our north central Texas heat.—————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy your purchase for years to come! Thanks for the awesome review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

Fragrant, healthy plant and a large enough specimen for snipping for winter stews and roasts. Very pleased. Thanks!——————————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

My rosemary plant arrived today. It is an absolutely beautiful plant. Thank you.——————————————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

This Rosemary plant is doing perfectly; it is growing like crazy, I planted in a proper pot at the exit of my patio door and the aroma catches me right away.
Thank you for sending excellent plants!———————-Thanks for the great review! We are so glad you are pleased! Beth | WBG