Common sage
Salvia officinalis
Ground coverSecondary
Production
A hardy, aromatic little workhorse: feeds the kitchen and the bees while asking almost nothing of you. It turns woody fast, so trim lightly each year and swap plants out every few seasons.
Tolerances & traits
- Strata
- Ground cover
- Lifecycle
- Secondary
- Soil preference
- Sandy, Loam, Rocky
- Soil pH range
- 6 – 7.5
- Min. temperature
- -18°C
- Min. rainfall
- 400 mm/year
- Wind tolerance
- Medium
- Frost tolerance
- Medium
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Irrigation needed
- Low
How to manage it
Evergreen culinary and pollinator ground cover; prune lightly in spring to keep bushy and replace plants every few years once they go leggy.
Watch out for
Becomes woody, sparse and sprawling with age; do not cut hard back into old wood as it may not resprout.
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