Be sage

[igenlode]

I planted three more sage seeds back into the original pot (having first removed the inch or so of moss on top), since the self-sown sage plant that succeeded my original three is now looking pretty elderly in its turn. They are apparently perennial but very short-lived.

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[watervole]

I used to grow sage, but I don't really like the flavour and it wasn't as pretty as the rosemary...

[igenlode]

I don't have room for a rosemary bush; I have a spray of it hanging up in the kitchen that I pinched from somebody's pruning pile years ago, but I use it so little that it still has plenty of leaves on. Whether they still have any flavour left is another matter...

I don't use sage very much either, but I do have a few recipes that require it, and unlike rosemary it really needs to be used fresh. I actually did need sage as a flavouring recently, and the unfortunate plant is in such a parlous condition that I was hard-put to find enough leaves without feeling that I was endangering its existence :-(

[watervole]

My sage bush got a lot larger than yours....

[igenlode]

Yes, it's entirely possible that if I'd actually tried to grow a rosemary bush in an old pasta tray that would have ended up dwarfed too :-D

[watervole]

I can see why that might be an issue! LOL

[igenlode]

I think it was actually one of those big plastic boxes of half a dozen plums -- so quite deep. It makes for a relatively large tub in terms of my collection of very assorted pots (the bonsai birch, just now coming into leaf, is in a much shallower tray!)



But in terms of a full-sized bush it is undoubtedly tiny.