A friend of mine asked me if these plants are both rosemary. The one on the right is certainly rosemary but I'm not sure about the left one. Can it be another cultivar of rosemary? Or is it something else? Thank you.
Looks like it, I've noticed a few different cultivars which are more compact and tidier in growth I'm sure they are just forms of Rosmarinus officinalis.
Right-hand plant is certainly Rosemary, left-hand, I'm less convinced. Try sniffing a crushed leaf to see if it smells of Rosemary.
Thank you Chungii, Michael and K Baron. I was told that they both smell similar - not sure how similar they are as I haven't seen and sniffed both by myself. However, the one on the left is much stronger.. just touching the leaves, you can smell the fragrance.
One on the leaf appears to have different leaf arrangement. Are the leaves silvery beneath, with rolled margins like the one on the right?
I don't know Ron. I've to ask my friend about that. However, this is the closest photo of the suspicious plant I got. My first response to him .... I thought the one on the left was a cultivar of lavender. But I guess now I'm wrong.
I am sure the left is a standard old form of rosemary. I have dealt with it a bit in the last nursery I worked where they were sent as an order instead of your more compact cultivar on the right. They are not as neat or decorative as the prettier shaped one on the right. The leaf arrangement on both plants is opposite, one is more compact in growth than the other. The one on the left looks more like the old pink, white, blue flowering form the one on the right is more likely to be 'Blue Lagoon' or newer cultivar.
