| Purple Sage belongs in every garden and cook's kitchen. It is a lovely little plant, a shrubby perennial just a foot or two high and wide covered in long purple- and rose-tinged green leaves. In late spring and early summer, handsome lavender-blue blooms top the foliage, carried on sturdy spikes. Butterflies and bees adore it, and so will you as its rich fragrance wafts by!
The foliage reaches up to 4 inches long, with a nubby texture and powerful spicy flavor. Useful fresh or dried in cuisine, it is so attractive that it can proudly take its place among the other foliage plants of the sunny border!
The flowers are also showy, about an inch across and intensely colored. This is a vibrant, multi-colored, absolutely lovely plant, compact and very dense. Whether you keep it year-round in a container indoors or let it establish outdoors, Purple Sage will reward you with season after season of color! Zones 6-9. |
