In a Mediterranean climate, the fragrant, evergreen rosemary, which can exceed 2 meters in height and diameter, blooms and blooms with great delight of bees, which are the spoils of pollen and nectar. Cultivated exile North, however, size, flowering, aroma and therapeutic properties are halved, while not altering the quality ornamental. Rosemary is good to live in the garden in the ground (for example behind a wall South-facing) in pots on the balcony, and despite its origins as "hot" to survive the winter without too many problems.
VARIETIES
are numerous, and a nursery is well stocked on Monverde Brebbia in the province of Varese (tel. 0332/772443), which also sells by mail. Any advice. If you are going to grow a
bordurina choose a dwarf variety (height 50 cm) for a hedge chiedetene instead of a good development (height 120-150 cm). In any case
planted specimens distance of half a meter and potateli in late winter. Perfect for isolating a bench near a wall or pyramid is variety, which led content, soaring, and if you need a plan that expands more in width and height of the prostrate rosemary (about 30 cm high, up to one meter in diameter) is right for you. Finally, for a mixed-color in mild, white-flowered rosemary, rose, mauve.
• Do you want a tree full of branches and leaves? Coltivatela ground in grease, annaffiatela in abundance, continuously cut the tips of branches not to leave flowers, protect it under the "non-woven" during the winter months.
• Do you prefer a plant with a pleasant fragrance and rich flowering? Coltivatela in poor soil, full sun, annaffiatela just do not cut the tips of branches, administered in February and in August a fertilizer phosphorus-potassium (for fruit and vegetables in general).
• You want a "sea" of rosemary? In spring-summer torn off, you already have the young twigs and put them in a glass of water (never change), those buried in the roots which sprout when they are long as a fingernail. In winter, buried in a jar i bought dall'ortolano woody branches after they trimmed to half the length. But you have to be patient and wait until the next summer, when the new shoots appear, to be sure of the future rooting.
• The drink: 4 tablespoons fresh rosemary fogliole-ne, 1 tablespoon fresh sage leaves, 1 tablespoon honey, 1 liter of red wine. Put in a pyrex, warmed in a water bath for half an hour, let cool, strain, imbottigliale.
• Water Beauty: Prepare a tea by pouring a handful of flowers and fresh leaves of rosemary and bruised a quart of boiling water. Let cool, strain and refrigerate. This "lotion" is used to cleanse the impure skin, rinse the mouth to strengthen the gums, moisten wounds and burns to promote healing.
A handful of salt to the RECIPES
• Steak: 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary leaves, 1 tablespoon of minced garlic, dried and chopped 1 bay leaf, a few grains of white pepper. Mix everything in a pound of saie marine store in an airtight jar. The required amount on the ground cooked meat and grilled.
• Flowers in the ice, put fresh flowers of rosemary in portacu betti-ice trays filled with water lemon, and freeze it. Are cubes with rosemary and rudder tuffali ^ § in a jug and cool and you can * £ flavor of white wine or ice cream guar-£ ne Alfe champagne.
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