Evergreen Perennial 
Ht: 2'-3' 
Light: Full Sun 
Soil: Well Drained Soil 
Color: Blue 
Symbolism: Wisdom 
Culinary 
Flowers 
Medicine 
Teas 

Purple Sage

Evergreen Perennial 
Ht: 2' 
Light: Full Sun 
Soil: Well Drained Soil 
Color: Blue 
Symbolism: Wisdom 
Culinary 
Ornamental 
Medicine 
Teas 

Beautiful purple leaves are this 
sage's claim to fame.

Use to flavor dressings, teas, cheeses, sausages, and poultry.

Perennial 
The main culinary varieties 
popular with onions for 
poultry stuffing and for 
flavouring rich meats like 
pork or duck. Also in 
homemade sausage, omelettes, 
cheese and bean dishes. 
Sage tea gargle is valuable 
for sore throat. Grey-green 
pebbly leaves, pale blue flowers 
The most commonly grown 
culinary variety. 

Tri Color Sage

Tender Perennial 
Ht: 18"-24" 
Light: Full Sun 
Soil: Well Drained Soil 
Color: Blue 
Symbolism: Long life 
Culinary 
Ornamental 

The pleasing, contrasting colors 
for garden or landscape. 
Europeans believe sage helps 
digest rich foods, which might 
account for its association 
with duck & game recipes 
there. Today sage is familiar 
as an essential ingredient in 
turkey stuffing. 

Tender Perennial 
Ht: 1'-2' 
Light: Full Sun 
Soil: Well Drained Soil 
Color: Blue 
Symbolism: Immortality 
Culinary 
Ornamental 
Medicine 
Teas 

Clary Sage

Biennial 
Ht: 2' -3' 
Light: Full Sun 
Soil: Well Drained Soil 
Color: White 
Ornamental 
Fragrance 
Medicine 

 Clary ( S. sclarea ), native 
from the Mediterranean 
region to Iran, is a biennial 
sage whose seeds were 
once used to “clear the eye”. 
It has bluish or pinkish 
flowers, and its oil is 
sometimes used similarly 
to that of the common 
sage.