Rosemary advice - it doesn't look quite right

Hi all,
I have a rosemary that i thought was doing quite well, although it is growing (it has soft new growth at the top) it's leaves are a bit yellowy. It has been like this for quite some time but has flowered and has new growth so i'm assuming it can't be THAT poorly? I read in a book that if plants are yellowy it can mean their deficient in something (can't remember what!) so
1 - does anyone know what it may be deficient in?
2 - Could there be something else/as well as that may be wrong with it - or is it actually normal for rosemary to look this way??!! lol!
3 - I have some slow release feeder, should i pop one in the container for it?

It is in a large container by itself. I have never fed it and i water it only occasionally as i understand they don't like wet feet!! I couldn't tell you the soil i planted it up in as i have no idea! Prob just multi-purpose stuff i would think. i bought it around 10 months - 1 year ago.

Thank you!!

 

Hi Busybee

When you buy a rosemary plant, it's usually green and lush - having been grown under glass and pumped up with a high nitrogen feed prior to sale.

In fact, rosemary gets to be quite a scruffy plant as it grows older. I don't usually keep them in pots more than a couple of years. It's easy to take cuttings to start new plants or if you don't want to wait, they're cheap to buy new.

By the sound of it, your rosemary just needs a bit of feeding. And I'd increase the watering considerably during the summer. It's true they don't like overwatering but they fill their pots with roots very quickly and then have very little reserve of moisture. Your plant will also need plenty of water to help absorb the feed.

Don't forget to give it a light ttrim after flowering and to prune it next spring.

 

Agree with everything Flinty says....give it a weekly liquid feed for a few weeks and it'll probably perk up. I think if it were mine I'd find a nice place in the garden for it, plant it out and take cuttings for the future if you want one in a pot, perhaps as part of a kitchen herb garden.

 

That sounds good - thanks to both of you. I will plant it out in my garden to give it more space and feed it up a bit! Thanks again!