Need Help-- Rosemary dies inside!

[countrymom]

Every year, I have the same problem--I can not keep rosemary alive indoors.
I put my thriving big bunch of rosemary into a terracotta pot & brought indoors before our 1st frost--it seemed to be doing well...but now I see it's dying (and drying) from the bottom upwards.

I can never keep a plant thru the winter. What am I doing wrong?
Has anyone had sucess?? Advice is welcome..

[Beppie]

I know they like lots and lots of sun which I always have a hard time providing for them in winter. I'm interested to hear what others have to say b/c I have the same problem my rosemary plant has died since bringing it indoors. sorry I'm no help here, just wanted to sympathize!

[aikigypsy]

Originally Posted by Beppie

I know they like lots and lots of sun which I always have a hard time providing for them in winter.

Hmm. I was living in Ireland for a year and a half, and the rosemary bushes were huge. Like 3' high and wide, lush, flowering. Ireland is not a place with lots of sun. I wonder if it's too warm/dry for them in your house? They can tolerate some frost, and will survive a mild winter here (when low temperatures stay mostly in the teens) but not a hard winter with lots of snow and low temps around 0 Farenheit.

[goldfinches]

I've brought mine in for 3 or 4 years now. I've never killed it, but it does get pretty scraggly looking. All I've read indicates it doesn't like much water, like almost being contantly dry. Try underwatering it compared to your other plants.

[PuppyFluffer]

Try misting it some. I think it's hard for them to receive the necessary light and moisture. Watering at the roots is necessary but some plants do better with some topical moisture too.

[cschick]

Originally Posted by countrymom

Every year, I have the same problem--I can not keep rosemary alive indoors.
I put my thriving big bunch of rosemary into a terracotta pot & brought indoors before our 1st frost--it seemed to be doing well...but now I see it's dying (and drying) from the bottom upwards.

I can never keep a plant thru the winter. What am I doing wrong?
Has anyone had sucess?? Advice is welcome..

Was it in the ground before? I think they don't tend to survive ground-to-pot transplant most of the time. Every time I've tried that, dead rosemary.

The rosemary I just keep in pots year-round does fine unless it's overwatered. Then, dead rosemary. My neighbor tended my plants last February, and overwatered it to death in a week.

[Viola]

This is funny, because yesterday I was going to start a thread like this. I bought a rosemary plant, and when I bought it, I talked to a woman about it who did a lot of gardening, and she says she can't keep the hothouse ones alive. I had bought one before, but it died after I transplanted it. I live in Nevada and planted it in a sunny place in my yard. It said it was drought resistant and liked sun, so I didn't worry about watering it too much, but it died even faster than my basil plant did.

The instructions on my rosemary plant said to water it daily if it was left in the pot, but I thought that was too much, so I only watered it like once a week or so. It still died. Is that still too much water? I finally gave up and stopped watering it altogether, and I'm now stripping off the needles.

[ms.shell]

rosemary does fine overwinter in the ground for me. every house i have ever lived in now has a rosemary bush the size of a man near the back (or in one case, front) door.
But right now, besides the large bush in the herb garden, i have two i have been growing in pots for a couple of years now. i leave them out doors in the winter and only bring them in on the coldest nights. I always treat herbs in pots this way...i know you are supposed to be able to grow herbs indoors but leaving things inside all winter is a recipe for death here. i just leave all my potted plants on the back steps and bring them in if it freezes and take them back out in the sunshine as soon as it warms up. the only plants i keep indoors all winter are the tropicals, like the money tree and mandevilla.

[FarmerCathy]

My rosemary bush in CA is in a pot and it likes to be watered in the summertime every other day. I just bought a rosemary plant for inside here and so far it is still alive, but I've been waiting until it totally dries out before I water it. I'm also going to put it under lights where I'm starting artichoke seeds to see if that helps keep it alive. HTH

[mattemma04]

My mom has a huge plant and said she keeps it in the coldest room in the house for the winter.Cool/cold room and sun through the window has kept it alive through a few winters.

[countrymom]

I just bought a big one--tree shape---and it was a bit $$--so I really need it to stay alive. Going to put it in my sunniest window--which also tends to be coldest as it's upstairs and my office/ art studio--so I don't heat it all of the winter...just as needed.

My fingers are crossed.....I can do this!!!

[lmonter]

I yanked my rosemary from the garden a few weeks ago to put in a pot in my kitchen windowsill next to my aloe. I pretty much water them at about the same time, so good to know they may like being dried out.

[onthemove]

I had my rosemary in a pot in the greenhouse all summer and brought it into the house about a month ago and it seems to be fine. I do know they don't like alot of water and I keep it in the sunniest place in my house but other than that I don't know what is keeping it alive? Now basil is the one plant I can't seem to grow summer or winter...

[faithsstuff]

we have ginourmous rosemary outside. we're in the south so we don't get too much bad weather but it does freeze at night and they seem to be fine. They've got to be at least 10 years old and happy as can be.