Rosemay is an evergreen variable shrub, prostrate to upright or spreading with narrow needle like leaves and masses of tiny blue, purple and sometimes pink or white flowers in late winter and spring. Needs full sun, good drainage and little or no water when established. Attractive to butterflies and bees and ignored by deer. We have many cultivars available in the Markham Nursery. Several that are available now include:  

This is just a partial list of the Rosemary's usually availalble in the Nursery.

   Rue is a shrubby perennial with aromatic blue-green to gray-green divded leaves and small, greenish yellow flowers in mid-to-late summer. Needs full sun, good drainage, and moderate to occasional water. Cut back in winter or early spring. Rue is ignored by deer.

   This Scilla is an easy summer dormant bulb with long lasting dome-shaped clusters of densely packed bluish purple, sometimes white, flowers. Needs full sun, good drainage, and no summer water (once established). Good for naturalizing. Despite the name, it is native to the Mediterranean. Some other species of Scilla require summer water.

 

Editor's Note: I've written about this plant before. It's a great no-care plant that never fails to satisfy with its flowers in early spring. Currently most of the plants in the Nursery are sitting where they get water, so they are still green... straggly but green. Whereas in my garden, there is only bare dirt where they flowered this spring. Come fall they will start poking up green sprouts and by later winter, they will be ready for bloom again. No water, no fuss... let them seed and you will have plenty of them in your no-water garden. Ask my neighbor who now has more than I do since I keep neatining them up and in the process have not allowed them to go to seed... something I've done unknowingly... next year I'm going messy and let them go to seed. This plant in bloom in early spring is often sold individually in pots in the commercial nurseries as Cuban Lily. The plant is not a native of either Peru or Cuba, although it has been widely naturalized in Cuba.