How to Prune Rosemary/Part Two by The Gardening Tutor - Mary Frost
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2015
- In this video you'll see a review of where to make pruning cuts in order to encourage new growth in your rosemary plant. You will have the best results for a long-lived bushy plant (avoiding bare stems) by starting your rosemary pruning when your plant is young but knowing how the plant will react to your pruning cuts is super helpful information to know no matter the age of your rosemary.
In How to Prune Rosemary Part One you will see how to prune an older rosemary to encourage bushy, new growth.
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Thanks for being concise and to the point most of the other videos on this are so tedious and slow.
Love your profile pic! Hahaha. You're so welcome. -mary ...that is Clint Eastwood, right? Maybe it's you!
I Want to Thank You Very, Very Much for Your 2 Tutorials ! We moved to Florida about 10 years ago and I've Loved being Able to Plant and Enjoy year round Almost Everything year round. I had Neglected 2 Beautiful Rosemary plants that had become woody From my Friends and Family just Taking cuttings when They needed it. Now I Understand Why My 2 Plants Died after Becoming Soo Terribly Woody !!! Thank You Again for Helping Me Understand. Maybe Now I'll Have Better Luck as My Son Just Planted 2 New Baby Rosemary plants 👍 and They're Where I can see them Every day 😉
What a lovely note to see first thing in the morning Freida. Thank you so much for posting your story! You will be able to take cuttings from the young plants now and the cuts will encourage more growth because they will be from young, leafy stems. All the best, mary. :)
Very easy to follow and informative!! Thank you
Thank you sooo much. SOOO very helpful. I’m thinking about having my own herb garden
Thank you for both videos on how to prune Rosemary.
You are so welcome Carol. Thank you for taking the time to watch! Some of my videos can be a little long to get all the information in and I value your time. -mary
Exactly what i was looking for after the first video. Excellent information! Thank you!
Sweet! Thank you for watching and posting ninjaraph. -mary
Rosemary is such a great easy first herb to grow. Grows like crazy here in Texas, you can just walk the neighborhood and pick it from any of a dozen houses for dinner
Well at least you admit you steal from your neighbors. :)
Thank you, Mary. I have watched both videos about Pruning Rosemary. I just came from my garden and pruned my one yr old rosemary ( I planted it last Spring). I even planted some of the sprigs. 😄
You're welcome Pinay. It's means alot to me that you take the time to watch. Keep your little sprigs area moist but not soggy so the little rootlets that sprout don't dry out. You're going to have beautiful new plants from those. Once they get growing you can cut them by 50 percent of their height to make them branch low. I love it when you let me know how your gardening is going! -mary
The Gardening Tutor Thank you Mary. I will! Bisous!
Thank you for the lesson professor
haha! I'd still be in school if I went for being a Professor. :) I'm so happy you watch our videos Nathaniel. -mary
Good video, very clear....can't wait to get home and trim mine up!
Thank you so much! For those of you who don't see my other comment on the other rosemary video. . . pruning rosemary to help your plant bush out is done when the plant is just about to push new growth or at the beginning of pushing growth (here in zone 9 I prune my rosemary plants mostly in winter when they are really pushing growth). Go easy on the pruning when they are not pushing growth so you can get a feel for how your plant reacts. -mary
p.s. Young rosemary plants though have healthy green growth all down their stems and can be pruned by 50 percent to make them bush out even more. If you plant your new plant that has lots of tall stems and don't prune it, it will become woody faster than if you shear it by half to encourage branching.
Here's the little baby, prune that too.
And I was like..Nooooo!!! Poor baby bahahahahahha.
Aside from the joke thank you for the tips that's helpful!
Thank you for this video! I have some potted rosemaries which I started growing when I bought it off the supermarket shelf. I’m a little adamant about cutting them as they’re only 9-10 inches in height. Do you think they’re mature enough yet for me to do some snipping to encourage bushiness? : )
Thank you for posting SajNT. You're welcome. Yes, as long as your plants are healthy and growing well you can snip up to half their height of 9 or 10 inches. So, 4 or 5 inches snipped off. Make the cuts at different heights so it looks natural. -mary
Hey Mary, Thanks a lot for the reply! I’ve snipped some of them off and instead of eating them, I’m propagating new ones. Hopefully they’ll get all bushy in due! :D
I am adamant that your use of adamant is incorrect. 😀
What are these leaves coming out of the tops of the rosemary plant and should I prune them?
Hi Anthony, thanks for writing! Are you talking about the stems in this video or did you try to put a photo of your own rosemary in your question? If your rosemary plant is getting too tall or is on its way to becoming lanky, you can either do heading cuts to shorten them or thinning cuts to prune them out or a combination of both. If you haven't watched Part One of our videos, this will most likely answer all your questions. When making heading cuts, it's important to prune above healthy growth to encourage bushy new growth. Please, let me know if you need more information. Thanks again, -mary
No I have small leaves growing out of the tops of the rosemary plant.
How is a 'leader' defined and identified? And how many leaders should be pruned?
Thanks for asking Robert. A leader is generally a dominant stem (stem that tends to be growing faster and taller then others) that has not been pruned. Once you prune the tip off or farther down that stem the pruning will encourage lower laterals (the shorter stems below the tip of a leader is generally called lateral growth) to grow. Then many of the lateral growth stems will push growth and become their own leaders. This push of growth from several laterals is what makes the bushy/full form. For rosemary, I usually just prune to keep the plant looking full and healthy. It's not usually necessary to prune all leaders down at one time. Ideally, when pruning it's a good practice to hide your cuts as best you can so the plant just looks amazing without seeing lots of cut ends. Hope this answers your question and doesn't make it clear as mud. Let me know if I need to try again. -mary :)
Thanks for that.
what about the purple flowers? Trim away the same way?
Some flowers will be sacrificed when you prune down the stems but there is no need to individually remove the flowers on the stems that are left. As they fade, if the old flowers are hanging on and looking unsightly you can use a gloved hand and run along the stem (going in the direction of the growth). They usually self prune though. Thanks for posting and watching! -mary
How often should u prune and the part u prune can it be use to cook??
I am new plant grower and I am ver y cautious cause I want my plant to die.
Yay! I'm always happy to hear of new gardeners! Yes, you can cook with the rosemary. Rosemary can be pruned as often as it needs to stay bushy. A little pruning here and there not pruning every single stem every time. As you see in the video prune some stems as low in the foliage as you can (cutting just above healthy green leaves-not bare stems) to keep the plant full and bushy inside. Let us know how it goes. -mary
@@TheGardeningTutor thx I will let u know
What are some diseases Rosemarys are susceptible to?
Generally disease is not what I see on Rosemary plants. It's whitefly and thrips that can damage the leaves and make the green leaves turn spotty. Also, over -watering can kill a rosemary before one realizes they were watering it too much (I did that once!).
What are you seeing Ca2azgrandma that makes you ask?
Thank you for your reply...I trimmed back a very large older Rosemary about a month ago early fall, now in the areas trimmed the rosemary leaves are drying out and turning brown. The rest of the rosemary is very healthy.
I’ve also noticed during summer months white liquidy balls on some branches.
Can you comment on either or both conditions?
I'm wondering if the liquidy balls are the slimy, spit look of spittle bugs. My garden gets those in spring though. I just wash them off in the morning with a strong spray of water. Spittle bugs do not usually injure my plants. As to the pruning, the best time to prune rosemary is when it is actively putting on new growth. If the cuts were made into the less lush parts of the stems, perhaps they would turn brown instead of pushing new growth. I'm sorry to hear this happened. -mary
Thank you for your replies. I think you’re right about the spittle bugs, I’ll wash them off when I see them next spring.
So far the cut areas do not seem to be harming the rest of the rosemary bush...it may be that an otherwise unexposed part of the plant was affected by sudden freezing temps.
Looked leggy
Good advice but repetitive at the beginning. Prune out ten seconds and make your presentation bushier. :)