Tuesday, April 9, 2024

As the Weather Changes

 Below is a photo of rosemary.  It was planted in my yard last spring.  Rosemary is an annual in Michigan.  Or at least it was before this year.  


It reached a high of 77F today.  I had to turn on the AC in the car.  IN APRIL!!!! 

When I was walking in the front yard and saw these rosemary plants still green and growing I was astounded.  It will be interesting to see if they continue to grow through the summer.

Climate change has always happened over millennia.  This is too much, too fast.  

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/rosemary_the_herb_with_winter_problems

10 comments:

  1. Your rosemary should do just fine. It's a very hardy plant, one of my favorites for the home garden.

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  2. I used to bring one inside for the winter. Everything outside would die off.

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  3. Your rosemary survived outside this winter? Like you, we've always taken ours in. That is both exciting and very scary. We had a fraction of our normal snow and forsythias and star magnolias are in full bloom! A park in Rochester, NY famed for its lilacs posted on Facebook on April 1st that its lilacs were in full bloom and I just might have believed it. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com

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    1. Our forsythia is just about done blooming here.

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  4. They plant rosemary on the sides of the highways here - they are very hardy.

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    1. This is the first time they have survived winter.

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  5. My forsythia is also blooming..a bit too early. Your Rosemary looks really good.

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    1. I just found this article from Michigan Stste University: https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/rosemary_the_herb_with_winter_problems

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  6. I can't walk past a rosemary bush without giving it a little squeeze and sniffing my fingers!

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    1. I had a gardener who always did that. He would also pull leaves off the basil and eat them.

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