How To Grow Sage At Home

Growing sage at home is a great way to add evergreen foliage to your garden, and have fragrant herbs on hand for cooking.

But it can be a little fussy, so you’ll need to learn how to grow and care for it correctly for the best success.

This guide will teach you how to grow sage now matter what your skill level is. Below you’ll discover everything you need to know, including the right sun, water, soil, fertilizer, pruning, harvesting, and more.

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Sage (Saliva officinalis), also known as common sage, is a type of perennial herb. It’s from the Mediterranean and belongs to the Lamiaceae, or mint, family, which also includes lavender and oregano.

It’s a hardy plant with fragrant, oblong, velvety-textured leaves. It can get blue, purple, pink, or white flowers between late spring and summer, depending on the type.

Gardeners love to grow it for the beautiful and highly fragrant foliage and vibrant blooms, but many varieties also have culinary uses.

There are hundreds of types of sage, but they all have similar care needs. The varieties differ in edibility, foliage and flower color, size, and temperature tolerance. Here are some of the more popular types:

If you live in growing zones 4-10, you can find a hardy sage variety that will survive the winter and come back every year in your garden.

But it’s best to replant it annually if you live in a region that is either colder or has high heat and humidity in the summer.

Sage is a mounding bush-style plant with branching stems. The stems start out soft and green and produce fragrant leaves until they become woody with age.

Flower spikes with clusters of colorful blooms will grow at the top of stems sometime between late spring and summer, depending on your climate.

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