Rosmarinus officinalis 'Blue Boy'

Let's face it--we need rosemary. We don't need it all the time, but we need it. Our potatoes need it. Our soups & savory dishes are sad without it. Well, we just don't need a cubic yard of it. Enter this wee cultivar! Now you can make room in your garden for rosemary without resenting its massive footprint! Tidy & compact, 'Blue Boy' has all the charming features of your de rigueur rosemary (spicy scent, tough & tolerant, with sweet pastel blue flowers in springtime to charm the bees) without the ungainly size. Only 1' tall & a little wider, it's happy in pots, at the edge of the herb border, or in a rock garden setting. It's not a speed demon, so if you need bushels of rosemary, this is not the plant for you, but for dabblers & culinary lightweights like moi, it's just right! Evergreen, drought tolerant & deer resistant, of course!