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i got it from a neighbor's front yard, it was tall like a shrub, and it had the fragarance. now it lost its hardy appearance, and it doesn't have any fragarance, either.
I think you may have collected something other than the rosemary . . . it is always fragrant and you can feel the oils on your hand (the stem is stiff, and sub-shrub-like) when you rub it.
how tall will rosemary grow? The original plant is like a child's height, and it looks hardy. i am surprised that this thing is not growing upward at all.
How tall rosemary gets depends on the cultivar, some are more prostrate/trailing but others can get to be quite large shrubs especially if you don't prune them. Does your plant have square stems? Rosemary is in the mint family and everything in that family has square stems--yours don't look too square from the picture but that's something that's often hard to tell from a picture. The whorls of leaves look correct though, that's another family trait. As far as why it's not growing, if it's a cutting or small rooted plant that you just planted recently, they always work on getting their roots going first before they'll put out top growth so I wouldn't worry that it's not growing much yet.
This is a shot of a mature rosemary, upward-growing. There are similarities, but at this stage it's too small to really tell WHAT it is with certainty, but there are those with better expertise than I. If it has no pungent smell, even at this stage, then it IS no rosemary.
