The most common of the many varieties of green sage, Garden Sage is a small evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish rough-textured leaves, and blue to purplish flowers. It is a strongly flavored and aromatic. Garden Sage is much cultivated as a kitchen and medicinal herb, and is also called Common sage, Kitchen sage, and Dalmatian sage.
Garden Sage (Salvia oficinalis) is both a culinary and ornamental delight. Sharing its color for three to four weeks in early spring, it is one of the prettiest of all Salvias. It makes a great informal hedge or drift. Garden Sage flowers can be used as a garnish or as an addition to fresh bouquets.
Culinary Sage is best used fresh, but they can be dried. Besides the traditional use in stuffing, Sage is good with pork, sausage, other meats, and cheese. It is often combined with thyme and used with beans and in soups. Use Sage with fruits in vinegars. The flowers make an attractive garnish in salads, butters, soft cheeses, and ice cubes.
Fresh picked "hands" of Sage tips can be used to make wreaths or tussie-mussies. They dry well and have that heavenly Sage fragrance.
Garden Sage is well known as a cooking herb, but its nutritional and healing properties are not commonly known. It is rich with vitamins and minerals such as B-1, folic acid, carotenes, copper, magnesium, molybdenum, potassium sulfur, zinc and essential fatty acids. These, and other naturally occurring constituents, calm the nervous system, aid digestion, and regulate hormonal imbalances including menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and headaches. Versatile sage is high in antioxidants, can be rubbed on the skin to sooth insect stings and can be used to treat asthma.
Sage will grow in almost any well drained soil in a sunny position.
Cultural Information
Height: 3 Feet
Hardiness: Perennial
in Zones 5-11
Flower Color: Blue
Characteristics: Full Sun,
Water Conserving,
Evergreen
Uses: Fragrant,
Medicinal, Culinary
Seed packets contain 25-50 seeds.
Herb Seeds 
