Common Name: Sage
 
Habit:  Sage is a Mediterranean native with grey-green leaves up to 6cm x 2.5cm covered in a fine hair which gives them their silvery appearance. This shrub is wider than it is tall growing up to 70cm high and 1m across with the leaves on woody stems.
Flowers: In early to mid-summer flower spikes appear with lavender-purple blooms on them making them both ornamental as well as a culinary favourite in the garden.  The leaves have many uses in the kitchen with their savoury slightly peppery flavour.
Care: Plant in full sun where possible as this herb has its best flavour with more light. Ensure soil is well drained, mix sand into clay type soils to aid drainage, Sage can tolerate alkaline soil but not wet winters. Frost does not seem to be a problem but in very hot climates Sage is treated as an annual.
Can cope with some frost but doesn’t not do well in the heat of summer, hot climates it's an annual
Prune heavier woody stems in early spring.
 
 
الأسم: سالفيا أوفيشناليس
طبيعة النبتة: تتميز أوراقها بلونها الأخضر المائل للفضي. قد يصل طولها ل70سم وعرضها لمتر.
طبيعة الزهرة: تظهر من منتصف الصيف حتى إنخفاض درجات الحرارة بشكل كبير. تتميز بلونها الأزرق الجذاب. تستخدم في الطهي.
العناية: تفضل المناطق المشمسة. يمكنها تحمل القليل من الإنجماد. لا تحب درجات الحرارة العالية.