The Smell of Fresh Rosemary

i adore herbs 'n 've done my best to surround myself with 'em fer years. i keep most in pots near the back door, where the pup/cat 'n folks brush 'gainst 'em 'n release those wonderful aromas. i'm quite fond 'f rosemary 'n e'en make a hair rinse outta it (good fer the scalp). i'd be lost without my lil herb garden 'n put up all i can throughout the season 'n haul some in to winter o'er. hopin' to grow it bigger next year if'n the health allows fer such.

I make a paste of herbs that grow in my garden. This paste has some other ingredients such as onions, green chilies, salt, sugar, tamarind and a little of coconut. I am planning on adding aloe vera gel whcih also grows in my garden. I buy coriander leaves that are added to this. This paste is then garnished.

I much prefer to use fresh herbs and rosemary, bay and sage are my three favourites, I think. Actually, bay is one which is better used dried because when it's fresh it's slightly bitter. Rosemary also dries very successfully but sage is better used fresh. Last year my next door neighbour was pruning a large bay tree, so I had a huge supply of bay leaves from which I made bay oil. I did this by packing a mason jar with fresh leaves and topping it up with oil (I used a vegetable cooking oil but olive oil - not extra-virgin - might have been slightly better). Then I put the jar in a water bath, brought it up to the boil and simmered for two hours. When the jar was cool, I strained the oil and repeated the process with another full jar of leaves and the same oil. The result was about a litre of very concentrated oil which, I think, will probably last me the rest of my life! You only need a teaspoon to give the effect of two bay leaves! Now I'm planning to do a similar thing with rosemary because the oil is much more versatile than those rather tough little leaves.

I use fresh herbs all the time, the rosemary and sage are available all the year long, even in winter. My rosemary plant is very big, at least 2 meters high, when I prune the plant I smell like a duck ready to be roasted.

The only herbs I have are dried :( though seeing you all seem to grow your herbs in pots I might have a go at a couple of fresh herbs. I might have to wait a bit to try, at least until our pup Bosun stops destroying anything that gets planted out on our balcony lol...

Sadly, I have no clue when it comes to flowers or herbs, anything in a pot just does not survive. I do go and buy fresh herbs for certain meals. I must also say, someone gave me a potted cactus as a gift, and that, happily, has survived.

I get rosemary plants and often kill them in the winter. Usually in the house. This year I have some in a pot. I have taken it to the new house and the fragrance greets me as I work around the patio area. I just read that it is perennial so I guess I will leave it outdoors this year.

I don't really have a spot to grow them in. I haven't decided how I feel about Rosemary, but there are herbs I would love to grow.

I used to have fresh herbs right out the back door and off the kitchen. It was great! nothing better than fresh basil, thyme, rosemary and marjoram. All I have now is lavender. No better smell, to me, than fresh lavender.

Oh! I love to have a garden that is full of edible plants! My garden at my dream house :)

This is something I have always wanted to do, but I am not a gardener, I tend to kill plants, killed a bamboo plant once, and I have heard they are hard to kill.

I have a very big rosemary bush in the garden and rampant parsley both of which I enjoy using when cooking. Sometimes I run my fingers through the rosemary bush to get the delicate scent around me. Intoxicating!

Two types of mint and rosemary in our garden, planted years ago. You can't beat fresh rosemary leaves on the stem when roasting potatoes...

Yes we tend to use a lot of fresh herbs although there is only one I absolutely hate and that is coriander, I can not bear the smell or taste of it,

I have been given several herbs in pots recently and they are placed under the patio. I would like to have a miniature herb pot on the windowsill in the kitchen but haven't worked out a way to do this yet. Or am I just procrastinating

Using them in cooking is the best, the food is much tastier with fresh ingredients. I don't have fresh herbs, I want to get a pot with basil and place it outside my kitchen window. It smells great and I will be able to use it in foods as well. Or I can make mojitos..

We planted chives last year and the tomato plants overtook them and killed them. We only have a small raised bed so no room for herb and our local grocery store is sorely lacking in them.

I've never grown herbs, and I very rarely use them anyway. I do like a bit of rosemary with roast lamb though.

I love fresh Rosemary! I haven't grown my own yet. I chew on a couple of leaves when my nose is congested and it opens right up!

I have a little wall Herb Garden that is blooming with all these smells - I love Rosemary Lamb