Herbs
Rosemary
Salvia rosmarinus
- Cat: not toxic
- Dog: not toxic
- Light: full sun
About the plant
Rosemary comes from the Mediterranean coasts, and botanists now count it as a sage (Salvia). It likes sun and drying out, and in winter it does best somewhere cool and bright, as in a warm room it easily drops its needles.
Rosemary and pets
- Cat
- not toxic
- Dog
- not toxic
Care
- Watering
- about every 5 days in summer (April to September), every 10 in winter. Let the soil dry out to the bottom.
- Light
- full sun
- Air humidity
- low
- Temperature
- 5–30 °C
- On a balcony in winter
- stands a light frost (down to -7 °C), but take it indoors or cover it well before a hard one
- Feeding
- April to August, every 6 weeks
- Repotting
- every 2 years, in spring
- Grown
- in a pot
It cannot stand water left in the cover pot. It winters best bright and cool, around 10 °C.
This is a rough guide for a flat in Poland. In flowers every plant also has its own watering interval, which learns from how the soil was.