So I had to pull up some huge rosemary plants in the front yard to have some plumbing work done. I noticed that the rosemary I’ve bought to replace it has completely different leaves. The old plant was more like an evergreen with oily needle-like leaves. The new plant has soft flat leaves but still smells like rosemary.
Are these two plants actually related? Are they both edible? The “evergreen” One was fairly hearty and grew quickly. Will the other variety act the same?
Could one possibly be lavender? They’re actually quite closely related and the smells aren’t entirely different either.
When we bought our house there was one of each in the garden right next to each other and it took us a while to figure out what was going on.
Definitely not lavender as I always manage to kill lavender. 😉