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Unhealthy rosemary

Peanuts3Peanuts3 Posts: 759
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One of my rosemary's started going black earlier on in the summer, i thought maybe it had been scorched when watering, but now not so sure.

Any ideas what may be wrong with it ?  Will I be better off just taking it out ?

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 Thanks for any advice.

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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 22,645

    I rarely water my Rosemary, they like to be quite dry.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Peanuts3Peanuts3 Posts: 759

    Oh I wasn't watering them, I was being lazy and trying to fill up the bird's water so spraying over the top of them...image

  • neznez Posts: 15

    Could it be Rosemary Beetle , mine was full of them this year and ended up looking like this. 

  • RainbowfishRainbowfish Posts: 276

    Mine looks a like this, doesn't seem to have any beetles but has been attacked by leaf hoppers

  • B3B3 Posts: 26,531
    Rosemary is not usually long-lived . I'd just get another and watch out for the beetles. Squash them on sight!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 22,645

    There are different varieties of Rosemary, some not very hardy. Mine is hardy and I've had it for years. It got very big after about 15 years, I took several cuttings a few years ago and replanted them, now it's big again. It hates too much wet if we have a wet cold winter, recovers though.

    Rosemary beetle eats the leaves, doesn't make them change colour and they only eat them in late summer when they lay their eggs, then the grubs eat them and so do the beetles during winter. But the beetles don't eat during the summer.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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