Rosemary Prostratus Huntington Carpet

Huntington carpet blooms small but beautiful blue flowers if it gets regular water all winter.

Rosemary prostratus huntington carpet.

This cultivar is a low growing evergreen shrub with a dense foliage habit. Evergreen shrub growing 1 to 2 feet tall spreading or trailing 4 to 8 feet. The widest grown variety is prostratus reaching 2. Rosmarinus officinalis huntington carpet trailing rosemary.

Huntington carpet rosemary is a good choice for the edible garden but it is also well suited for use in outdoor pots and containers. Pale lavender blue flowers in spring sometimes again in fall. Low growing rosemarys are well suited for container plants and for cascading over window boxes planters and raised beds. Until 2017 it was known by the scientific name rosmarinus officinalis now a synonym.

Most commonly used rosemary for cascading down walls as in the photo at left of the garden designed by carole mcelwee of capistrano beach california. Description there are now many exciting cultivars of the mediterranean rosemary to be found in nurseries and garden centers. It can mound to 24 in. Rosmarinus officinalis huntington carpet item 7032.

Spreads 2 to 3 feet per year. In late winter through spring small pale blue flowers bloom along the stems. Tall and spread 5 6 ft. Huntington carpet grows 1 2 high and spreads 4 8 wide making it a good choice for large scale groundcovers slopes erosion control or trailing over walls.

There are very few rules in gardening but perhaps the most important one is to work within your zone. Plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot. More hummocky form than prostratus or huntington carpet see below. Because of its spreading habit of growth it is ideally suited for use as a spiller in the spiller thriller filler container combination.

It prefers poor rocky soils and little or no water. Plus it s edible. Prostratus has been in the trade for many decades and has proven to be tough and reliable under many landscape conditions. Choosing plants that grow and thrive in your particular climate is the very first step toward having a beautiful garden.

Salvia rosmarinus commonly known as rosemary is a woody perennial herb with fragrant evergreen needle like leaves and white pink purple or blue flowers native to the mediterranean region. Rosemary is a valuable old world aromatic shrub from europe through asia minor. After trying various ground covers that couldn t handle the high heat on a west sloping full sun area we are going with this rosemary. Irene 1 1 2 feet tall.

It was classified by linnaeus into the mint family and he named its genus from the latin for sea dew because it is commonly found on the chalk hills along the seacoast.