Garden Sage (Salvia officinalis) grows well in the dustiest, driest parts of our garden and also in the dank corners. I rehabilitated a supermarket plant, which now flourishes with bunches of aromatic purple flowers every July. It is reputed to have a range of healing and spiritual properties as a herb, and I sometimes dry bunches of it to use as a sage smudge stick when I'm doing the spring cleaning, because I can be a terrible hippie like that, and it fills the house will an illuminating, light fragrance better than Fabreeze.
A home made sage smudge stick
Anyway, I've also been using sage a bit in cooking - in a risotto with fennel, peas and sage,
Risotto with sage
Goats' cheese rolled in sage
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