Plant Database
Roman Beauty Rosemary
Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Roman Beauty’
Rosmarinus officinalis 'Roman Beauty' is a compact, evergreen shrub prized for its dense, rounded, mounding habit, aromatic culinary foliage, and profuse light lavender-blue flowers. This attractive rosemary forms a tidy, well-branched mound of soft, needle-like, gray-green leaves that radiate from woody stems, releasing a strong, classic rosemary scent when brushed. The leaves are edible and can be used in a variety of culinary dishes, including roasted meats, potatoes, breads, herb oils, and infusions. From late winter through spring, and often sporadically into summer, it produces an abundance of small, two-lipped, tubular, pale lavender-blue flowers that are highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. With its naturally compact, rounded habit, excellent tolerance for heat, drought, salt spray, deer, and poor soils, and its low-maintenance nature, it is an outstanding choice for low hedges, foundation plantings, borders, rock gardens, containers, and herb gardens.