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Care and Growth of Sage

Some sages are valuable cooking herbs, some are beautiful drought tolerant garden bloomers.  Consider adding these plants to your garden.

SageCooking or Garden Sage
(Salvia Officinalis)

This is culinary sage, but all types do well in low water gardens.  They are fairly drought resistant and don't mind the heat.  

They like full sun to part shade and grow about 1 foot tall and wide here, with beautiful blue blooms in the Spring.

The papery blue flowers can be dried for arrangements

Fresh sage is great stuffed into chicken or turkey roasts.  Just rinse off a branch before using it whole.  Use a whole orange with your stuffing for a great flavor combo.

Culinary sage can be added to your drought tolerant herb garden along with rosemary.


western native white sage in flowerCalifornia White Sage
(Salvia apiana)

This beautiful shrub is native to Southern California and Baja.  It is usually found growing wild in the coastal sage scrub habitat on the western edges of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. 

It grows five feet tall (at least) and 5 feet across. 

White Sage is also called Bee Sage; my camera was lucky enough to catch one on a flower.  The leaves are up to 4 inches long, thick and velvety and are slightly sticky. 

The whole plant is very aromatic so you should find a spot in your garden where you can enjoy its fragrance.

The silvery plant seems to glow in the moonlight.  The flowers are white, sometimes tinted purple and are produced in whorls on long branches up to three feet long.

White sage is considered sacred by Native Americans, like the Chumash, in the southwestern United States.  The Peterson Field Guide To Western Medicinal Plants And Herbs describes it thus:  "Considered an expectorant; used for colds, coughs, sore throats and systemic poison oak rashes. 

An important  ceremonial plant among southwestern Indian groups. The herb  was burned as a fumigant after an illness in the dwelling and to cleanse sacred spaces.


Annual Sage
(Salvia sp.)

Many annual sages are grown for quick color in the garden.  One of the more common forms are red.  Other colors can include pink, white and yellow.



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