I love this time of year. The herbs and other flowering plants start to come alive and bloom. Sage grows really well in our hot South Texas dry summers and it requires very little water to survive and thrive.
I have several types of sage planted throughout the gardens and when they start to bloom they are always completely covered with bees. Alive and buzzing!
The buzzing sound almost drowns out the sounds of the birds that are chirping away.
Four more sage plant were added to one garden this spring. In fact, Sage, one of the writers that I met here at Not Dabbling in Normal, came over to help me plant somethings shortly after I got out of the hospital. She planted three sage plants amongst several other herbs and plants around the back yard.
Thank you Sage – they are all flourishing! I am very grateful for your help and I think of you every time I see the plants that you planted for me!
I have two sage plants in one garden on the east side of the house that aren’t getting enough sun to really do well (never thought I would say that about a plant here with such hot scorching summers) so I will move them this fall to a better spot.
I continue to see planting more sage in the future.
Do you grow sage in your gardens?
Sincerely, Emily
It was my pleasure Emily! Looks like the sage flowers are putting on quite the show. Hope you are feeling better. We’ll have to connect again soon. I’ll be taking another metal smithing class during the summer semester in SA.
Hi Sage! I’m improving, but there is a long road ahead of me still. Sounds like your last metal smithing class was great!!
I love growing sage in my garden! However, I find that after the first rain they get flattened out in the middle and then don’t look so full once they’re flattened out. I usually have to put some kind of fencing around them to keep them up. Do you have this problem?
Hi Dawn – I tend to clip and “trim” my sage a lot with I take cuttings for cooking, that helps keep it from getting too leggy. The one type of sage that I have (no idea which variety – tag said “culinary” when I put in the ground 3+ years ago) gets real tall – at least 2 feet. We don’t get a lot of rain, but as the outer branches get longer I help them lay on the ground, cover them with dirt and mulch so they will send out roots and I can have another plant to move somewhere else. So I would say maybe trim it more to encourage it to bush out more. Hope that works. The other sage I have in the photo with the light pink blooms is very low and compact and less than a foot off the ground. Love them all.
Thanks for the tips! I’ll try them this summer.
Gotta love the salvias. Some of them are very frost tender but as a whole, we can grow most of them here and they are incredibly forgiving plants 🙂
Hi Fran, ya, some of the more tender salvias don’t do so well and don’t come back after winter, but there are so many varieties that really thrive here in our hot, dry summers. LOVE them! So do the hummingbirds!
I am going to plant out lots of salvias this year as I learned a LOT about our property this summer and water and rain weren’t much part of it. We got 3 rain events for 5 months so you can only begin to imagine what it was like here. It was so hot we didn’t want to even bother with the garden and aside from the veggie garden we did very little over the extended hot summer. We are talking advantage of autumn to do what we were going to do in summer. Wish us luck, there is LOTS to do! :). I will be planting out heaps of salvias as they strike from cutting readily and some of them are pure gorgeousness and nothing eats them 🙂
I love the smell and taste of sage, wonder what the nectar tastes like! The climate in London is too cold for sage to really thrive, but otherwise I’d be growing it for sure.
HI Emily – I love it too. As I watch all those bees at work I wonder what sage flower honey would taste like!