1.   Another legend claims the flowers received their color when Mary, fleeing to Egypt, placed her blue cloak over a rosemary bush.

2.   Completely in control, yet relaxed, she bounces down the back steps to her garden, where she snips herbs and shows off a sprawling rosemary bush.

3.   For this reason, my rosemary bush is happiest near the stove in the winter, when soups and pasta water provide moist hot heat.

4.   Hardy throughout the South, rosemary bushes planted in the ground fare better in the cold winters than those in containers.

5.   So pick some up at the grocery or buddy up to a friend with a rosemary bush.

6.   This means banana trees are herbs and rosemary bushes are not.

7.   When the holy family fled to Egypt, the Virgin Mary spread her cloak over a rosemary bush and hid behind it as soldiers passed.