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6 postsSage is an undemanding Mediterranean subshrub. With the right spot and a firm spring cut, one plant carries you through the kitchen for many years.
Without pruning, lavender falls apart after a few years. With two simple cuts a year it stays dense, compact and flowers more lavishly summer after summer.
Thyme is easy once you understand where it comes from: sun, poor soil, little water. The way you prune it decides whether it lasts ten years or goes bald.
Rosemary rarely freezes to death, it rots in wet cold. How to overwinter it cool and bright, prune it right without cutting into old wood and choose hardy varieties.
The potted olive rarely dies of frost but of wet and darkness. Why you overwinter it cool, bright and almost dry and bring it indoors only late.
You overwinter potted fruit by temperature and light, not the calendar. The roadmap for fig, olive and citrus, so each plant gets the right winter quarters.
