Pineapple Sage (Salvia elegans)

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mystic Ewing, KY(Zone 6a) Oct 25, 2002

Common name: Pineapple Sage
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Salvia
Species elegans

Plant Link: http://plantsdatabase.com/go/1913/

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Weezingreens Seward, AK(Zone 3b) Oct 25, 2002

I just love this plant, Mystic, though it has to be treated as an annual here. I'm lucky to get blooms before fall, but the scented leaves and attractive foliage is worth it anyway!

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mystic Ewing, KY(Zone 6a) Oct 25, 2002

Weez I have to treat it as an annual here too.It will survive light frost but the first hard frost gets it.This is a must have plant for me I love it.

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Weezingreens Seward, AK(Zone 3b) Oct 25, 2002

Mystic, how do you winter it over?

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mystic Ewing, KY(Zone 6a) Oct 25, 2002

Weez to tell they truth I tried to bring it in last year and even tried to start some cuttings and lost it so I got another one this year. I have started some cutting's hopefully they will get rooted to try to keep indoors this winter. How do you keep it weez? Just thinking wonder if it could be brought in to a cool place and let go dormant?

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Weezingreens Seward, AK(Zone 3b) Oct 25, 2002

I'm in a Zone 3 area, so I can't just cover it and hope for the best, I'm afraid, although I've only tried it once. The best luck I've had with wintering it over was to take it down into my cool basement and keep it under fluorescent lights. In the spring, I would begin rooting slips.

However, I've quit wintering plants over that way because they were bringing in aphids that attacked the seedlings I start down there every year. I take my pelagoniums (geraniums) over to a friends boiler shed for the winter now. I don't know if one could winter the sage over like geraniums, but I might give that a try.

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Horseshoe Efland, NC(Zone 7a) Oct 27, 2002

Zowie! And to think me and Mystic were talking about this plant the other nite. Purty! Mighty purty!

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Weezingreens Seward, AK(Zone 3b) Oct 27, 2002

Yes, Wingnut, and the smell is just wonderful. I wish it were a bit more suited to my climate. My plant didn't even bloom this year.

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mystic Ewing, KY(Zone 6a) Oct 27, 2002

See shoe I told ya you need to grow it. lol Weez that pic was taken Oct 25th. We have had 2 light frost that didn't hurt anything and had one cold spell that got down to 35 degrees that was when I was busting my but digging things up to bring in but didn't seem to hurt anything. As a matter of fact my garden looks pretty good right now with the cooler temps and at long last some rains. It's a shame for it to get so pretty now just in time for cold weather.

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Weezingreens Seward, AK(Zone 3b) Oct 28, 2002

Doesn't it always seem that way. Just about the time you know the season is over, the plants seem to put out one more spectacular show. Maybe plants are just little teases!

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