Rosemary at the garden gate

[snopes]

Comment: why are you supposed to plant rosemary by your garden gate.

[Cervus]

Because love grows where my Rosemary goes, and nobody knows like me?

Here are three references. Not one of them agree on what rosemary by the gate. Growing well on the other hand, they agree about w/ gusto.

http://blogs.augusta.com/node/77
http://www.suite101.com/lesson.cfm/17555/946

[Le Chevalier Blanc]

Rosemary is also said to keep deer away. By planting rosemary (or other aromatic herbs) at the gate, one could keep deer and rabbits from entering the garden.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_can_y...of_your_garden

surrounding the garden beds with plantings of very aromatic plants that deers are repelled by is another idea - perhaps with a gate at one point for acceptable visitors to enter by, ie - you! Such plants could be thymes, catnips, rosemary, pachysandra, and anything else you find your local deer leave untouched.

[BamaRainbow]

As to the OP, I have no idea, but the thread title just sounded like something out of the STTNG episode "Darmok".
Somehow it just seems to fit in with "Darmok, and Jalad, at Tanagra" and "Sukat, his eyes opened". Then again, maybe it's just me.