[Goosegirl]

I bought two Mrs. Jessop's upright rosemary bushes and they arrived in good order. They have quite a lot of floppy and leggy stems and I want to train them into an upright bush. They had no floweres on them and haven't flowered since so would appreciate your opinions as to what to do.

[Dopey113]

I got a small rosemary from the supermarket, you know like a live herb you use in the kitchen and I decided to grow it anyway (thats not what they sold for but...) anyway put it in and it did great for 2 years nice big bush about 2 foot high, I cut it back, and it didn't like that at all, and has started to die on me new, I am hoping it will start to grow back

[oldgrunge]

I grew my rosemary from a cutting I took at the local crematorium about 25years ago, despite regular haircuts, it has grown way too big. After it's finished flowering I will take some cuttings with a view to replacing it.

[Alistair1392]

Rosemary should be alright to cut anytime in spring or summer so long as it's a month of two before the first frosts in winter. Also they should not be cut back by more than a third. If that helps at all

[Gardener and Rabbit]

I've just dug up a rosemary bush that had grown too big; it had rooted wherever the branches touched the soil, which just seems to be how they spread naturally, so I left one of these smaller pieces to grow into a replacement. It had just finished flowering here. I found 3 rosemary beetles on it too, which I'd not seen before, so they are in Lancashire now.

Some floppy & leggy stems are just how they grow, but a light trim/ harvesting will help keep it a bit more compact for longer.

[Goosegirl]

Thank you all - that does help. They are still in their pots so will cut the outer stems back by a third and maybe the top ones by a quarter.