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| Salvia rosemarinus 14 April 2025 |
Often other languages define things, places and in this case seasons with more insight.
Del lat. vulg. prima vera, y este del lat. primum 'primero' y ver 'primavera'. RAE (Diccionario de La Real Academia)
In Spanish spring is primavera which literarily means "to see first”. In my Kitsilano garden now is the time to be surprised at every turn as I walk and notice little flowers in bloom like anemones and primulas. I have even spotted some buds in two of my roses. They just might open in a week.
But the biggest surprise for me involves a plant that botanically is called Salvia rosmarinus. I was never aware or had ever noticed that it has little blue flowers. There is a fine but sad story about the rosemary in my garden.
My Rosemary gave our youngest daughter Hilary a small rosemary. All these years later is has grown to a large plant. Hilary no longer wants to deal with a garden and offered me to have it. I had to break the pot and put the plant is a canvas and bring it home from Burnaby. I planted it about two weeks ago and it never suffered being transplanted.
What can I possibly write here about a plant, a rosemary plant given to Hilary that is now back in the garden that used to be Rosemary and my garden? It seems somehow a symmetrical situation of a rosemary that is back to the fold.
Another revelation for me is that I did not know that rosemary was a salvia.