"Wonderful on the sockeye we had last night"
Oh my...you're killin' me here, Paul. We seldom get a decent fish around here and I'm a seafood lover!
As for ARP, I'm in zone 7, too, and it is one of the few that handles both our high heat and cool/cold temps. I wonder if your erratic winter temps put too much of a strain on it. This past winter I lost a lot of perennials that normally survive; our winter was extremely cold, then warm, then wet, then cold, then warm, etc.... No fun.
Lee, although fall and late winter would be best for rooting cuttings you can do it now with care. I imagine you have AC in your house, that would help since you are experiencing temps in the 100's. If you take tip cuttings about 5 inches long, strip the lower half of leaves, dip in rooting hormone or cinnamon, and put in your potting mix there ya go. With the high temps I'd recommend putting your pots/cell packs/whatever container you use (preferably small) on your water heater. This would give the cutting bottom heat but yet your air temp would be house temperature.
On another note, for less work, maintenance and bother you can layer your rosemary stems. Pick several healthy stems with the green growth (not those in your pic that are brown and with few leaves) and simply bend them down to the ground, covering a section midway in the soil. Using a bent clothes hanger or piece of wire pin it to the ground, water it from time to time and in a couple months you should have roots growing from where you pinned it. At that point clip it away from the mother plant and either pot it up or transplant it to another location. I'd do as many layerings as you like.
Tee, thanks for the compliment on the plants/greenhouse. It keeps me entirely too busy!
Shoe (tomato sammich time!)
