It takes an awfully good friend and neighbor to cheerfully and graciously water my "dirt-garden" while I'm away four months, but that is what my neighbor is doing. The only two kinds of plants I have growing in the ground are plumbago and rosemary, which give my front yard two shades of green and two shades of blue. All the rest of the plants are in clay pots or raised planters. These include the fig trees I started from leaf cuttings, a grape vine started from a small root cutting about 3 years ago, which bore fruit again this year, anemones, glads, lemon grass, strawberries, and a variety of herbs and volunteers. No tomatoes this year.
Up here I am on the second story without much of a balcony except for the enclosed solarium which is too hot for plants this time of year. But I have petunias blooming on the kitchen window sill and a small Aerogarden with nasturtiums and some kitchen herbs rooting in little glasses all around it. The rosemary surprised me, for in a little over a month's time 3 out of 3 leaf cuttings that I cut back from the sidewalk took vigorous root.
I have rooted rosemary in water before, but my efforts usually resulted in timid plants that took a long time to flourish. These cuttings are robust and I have already pinched off new growth for a twofold purpose: 1) to season food, and 2) to make the new plants branch out.