Rosemary Miss Jessopp’s, Rosmarinus officinalis Miss Jessopp’s Upright, has won the RHS Award of Garden Merit; offering many benefits for your garden.
When pruned our Rosemary Miss Jessopp’s, can keep an incredibly tight and compact shape. This makes for a perfect low maintenance border hedge and could, be considered a suitable alternative to box. However, if left un trimmed and maintained it can look straggly and untidy.
Miss Jessopp’s boasts very decorative, needle like foliage, with dark green leaves. Flowering in both spring and summer, Miss Jessop’s offers beautiful pale blue and purple flowers.
Furthermore, Miss Jessopp’s makes an excellent culinary herb and fills the garden with a lovely aroma and using it for cooking is a perfect way of pruning regularly. Additionally, when added to tea it soothes and relaxes the muscles whilst stimulating the mind.
Miss Jessopp’s whilst versatile to cope with moist soils prefers to find its water and prefers well drained soil of moderate fertility.
Our recommendation is to space each plant 40 centimetres apart.
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Miss Jessopp’s Upright is one of the few Rosemary varieties to have been awarded the RHS’s Award of Garden Merit as it offers everything you would want from Rosemary with none of the drawbacks associated with many other varieties. It keeps both its compact shape and upright bearing with minimum attention, while its foliage is highly decorative with dark green leaves displaying a whitish underside enhanced by delicate pale blue flowers in spring and summer. And it is an excellent culinary herb.
Foliage Type: Aromatic evergreen Flowers: Pale Blue in Spring & summer Hardiness: ✯✯✯✯ Ease of maintenance: ✯✯✯✯✯ Drought Resistance: ✯✯✯✯✯ Growth Rate: Medium Soil type: Any Wet/Dry: Needs well-drained soil Preferred situation: Sun Height / Spread: 1.5m x 1.5m
Soil and Situation: Miss Jessopp likes a spot in full sun but sheltered from wind. She will be happy in any soil that is well drained including chalk or sand. She is an excellent choice for coastal gardens and is extremely tolerant of drought
Maintenance: Little is required – Miss Jessopp can be trimmed to shape after the last frost and before spring growth has started and/or in autumn after flowering. This variety of Rosemary grows at a steady but stately rate and it can take up to 10 years to achieve its maximum size making it ideal for more formal planting as it will keep its shape with a minimum of maintenance.
Versatility: Anything you can do with Lavender, you can do with Rosemary – plant it to form a low border or hedge; as ground cover or as a specimen plant in a border, raised bed or container.
And finally: Some herbs, like Good King Henry, are only grown for their culinary or other use, others, like Lavender, are primarily ornamental. Rosemary and Miss Jessopp’s Upright in particular, offer the best of both worlds.
Every plant we sell is backed by four decades of growing. Tell us about your garden and we’ll tell you honestly whether this is the right plant for it.
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