I don't know the botanial,genus,species,or cultivar of this and I have been looking for it. All I know is common sage. Can anyone help? It is the kind that you would use for cooking and that sort of thing and you can buy the rubbed sage in the grocery stores.
common sage
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/313/
There you go.
carrie,
Thanks so much! I did a search on the advanced search and everything on here this morning and it came up with several different ones but when I looked at them I knew they weren't what I was looking for and just didn't know what I needed to know to bring it up. When you grow up just knowing one name for things it gets hard on here to find anything if you don't know the whole line of stuff on it. LOL. The one thing I did know that it was in the salvia family, but that was it.
So Thanks again !!!!
I typed in Salvia and herb, I think, or Salvia and common, or something. You get used to certain words being code for other things. Alba = white, etc. There are a few articles about using Latin nomenclature but I'll be danged if I can find them! Try this one:
http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/707/
carrie,
I think what irratates me the most is that I took Latin when I was in high school and now I don't remember any of it. I know what some of the plants are by the Latin names but if I don't know the family or species I really get confused when I try to find something. Thats like a lady that has stuff listed for sale on here and I look to see what she has and it is all listed in the Latin names and I have no idea of what some of it is, and some I do. I wish they would list the common name too and that way I would be able to learn all of this stuff quicker. Names by association.
Hi -- I have a question about pruning garden sage. In spring 2008 after a fairly mild winter here in NYC, after the flowers on my sage had died back, I pruned them, but evidently did this prematurely, because pruning prompted reblooming, and then some of the stems never did produce leaves in the same abundance as previously. Can someone give me some advice about whether or when to prune sage in late spring? Thanks.
My Mother-in-law never pruned hers and it did well and is still producing after almost 30 years.
flowerfantacy,
The "Common Sage" used as rubbed sage, cooking and the major flavor in Country Sausage is Salvia officinalis. You can take cuttings from your mother in law's plant and root them in 2-3 weeks
Other Cultivars
There are a number of cultivars, with the majority grown as ornamentals rather than for their herbal properties. All are valuable as small ornamental flowering shrubs, and for low ground cover, especially in sunny dry environments. They are easily raised from summer cuttings. Named cultivars include:
'Purpurascens', a purple-leafed cultivar, considered by some to be strongest of the garden sages,
'Tricolor', a cultivar with white, yellow and green variegated leaves,
'Berggarten', a cultivar with large leaves,
'Icterina', a cultivar with yellow-green variegated leaves,
'Alba', a white-flowered cultivar,
'Extrakta', has leaves with higher oil concentrations.
'Lavandulaefolia', a small leaved cultivar.