"Janet Bostwick" wrote
> "Bob Terwilliger" wrote

>> Thanks. Poking around online, I didn't see any rosemary plants which
>> would be suitable for me to use where I was contemplating using it. But I
>> still want to plant rosemary; I just won't use it for ground cover.

Hi Bob. I'm the 'break even' zone for this.

I have a 3ft or so tall rosemary at the front of the house. Don put it in
the front planter spot by accident but it seemed so happy, we left it there.
Survived the winter last year which suprised me. We give it a regular
haircut when making potatoes and things.

> It depends where you live and how cold it gets in the winter whether
> rosemary will live through the winter. Be sure to check for varieties
> that have a low temp tolerance (I think max is about 15-20 F). Rosemary
> doesn't spread in the sense that I think you mean. It doesn't drop seeds
> that

Yup. Lettuce, now that stuff spreads! It's hilarous but in my back yard,
some of the 'grass' is lettuce. I'm about to replant one bolted container
set now and put in butter lettuce. I don't need to plant more baby lettuce
as it's now growing up around the bricks where the planter was ;-)