Rosemary bush
A woody fragrant herb growing in the open ground — the old garden plant associated with remembrance.
A rosemary bush in a dream is the dream's image of a kept fragrant presence in the garden long associated, in old tradition, with remembrance. The bush is hardy, it survives winters, and one rubbed sprig carries the smell of every previous visit. The dream brings rosemary when something in your life — a memory of a person, an anniversary, a private commemoration — is being kept alive in a corner of the household and released by small daily contact rather than by formal occasion. A rosemary bush brushed in passing, the scent rising, is the dream affirming the kept remembrance. A rosemary bush dug out and replaced with something faster-growing is the dream noting that the remembrance has been removed from the daily ground, and the small fragrant cue is no longer there to be passed.