Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Does the herbacious plant rosemary have a gender?

I see rosemary bushes flowering at professionally landscaped public locations, but mine (purchased at a home improvement store) have never bloomed. Is this a male/female thing? Does maturity have something to do with it?

Does the herbacious plant rosemary have a gender?
It's a maturity thing. Rosemary flowers are (like most other flowering plants) perfect, meaning they have both male and female parts (stamens and pistil).





Also, heavy fertilization (especially with nitrogen) tends to encourage vegetative growth instead of flowering.


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