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Garden Sage Tricolor in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Salvia officinalis 'Tricolor'

 

Garden Sage 'Tricolor'

Sage, or garden sage, is a perennial shrubby herb with aromatic grey-green leaves on somewhat woody stems. It has many culinary uses, particularly in many stuffings for meat and poultry dishes. Sage flowers in Summer. 'Tricolor', as the name suggest, are three-coloured - green, with irregular splashes of pink-purple and cream. Flowers are blue-purple.

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plant Features
  • Garden Sage Tricolor likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Garden Sage Tricolor likes very little water

    Very little water

  • Garden Sage Tricolor is frost hardy: 23f (-5°c)

    Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

  • Garden Sage Tricolor likes free draining

    Free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Garden Sage 'Tricolor'

Latin name

Salvia officinalis 'Tricolor'

type

Evergreen Shrub

family

Lamiaceae

ph

5.0 - 8.5 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Garden Sage Tricolor likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Frost

    Garden Sage Tricolor is frost hardy: 23f (-5°c)

    Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

  • Soil

    Garden Sage Tricolor likes free draining

    Free draining

  • Water

    Garden Sage Tricolor likes very little water

    Very little water

Plant & bloom calendar

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    Best time to plant

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Garden Sage Tricolor is 1.00meters x 0.75meters 1.00 M 0.75 M

Salvia officinalis 'Tricolor'

Sage, or garden sage, is a perennial shrubby herb with aromatic grey-green leaves on somewhat woody stems. It has many culinary uses, particularly in many stuffings for meat and poultry dishes. Sage flowers in Summer. 'Tricolor', as the name suggest, are three-coloured - green, with irregular splashes of pink-purple and cream. Flowers are blue-purple.


Planting Outdoors

From Mid Spring TO Late Spring

Plant out container grown plants into partial shade or sunny site that is reasonably sheltered in any ordinary, free draining soil. They do not like to be wet.

 

Propagation by cuttings

From Mid Spring TO Early Summer

Take soft wood cuttings in spring to early summer. Cleanly cut up to a 10cm long stems, remove lower leaves and pinch the tip out, dip the stem into rooting hormone, fill a container/pot with suitable compost, make holes around the edge of it and plant the cuttings, water in well, cover with a polythene bag and place somewhere warm, lake the bag off twice a week to air the cuttings. Keep the cuttings moist until well rooted. Harden off when well rooted and pot on into individual pots increasing the airing to let the leaves to develop. Remove rotten, dying or dead cuttings regularly.

 

Propagation by cuttings

From Late Summer TO Mid Autumn

Semi hard wood cuttings are taken from the current years growth from late summer to mid autumn the bottom of the cuttings is hard and soft on the top. With a sharp knife take a cutting of about 14cms, remove lowest leaves, dip end into rooting hormone, and place round the edge of a pot filled with a suitable compost, water well, they must remain moist till rooted, place under glass but in semi shade.

 
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