| Description | Salvia officinalis purpurascens
Purple Sage is one of the most flavoursome sages, and can be used as an alternative to regular garden sage in the kitchen. It's beautiful purple foliage gives this plant a decorative use in the garden as well as being a great addition for cooking. Sage is most commonly used in stuffings, sausages, soups, stews, and is a favourite with chicken.
This plant is an evergreen perennial shrub that can grow to about 60cm tall. A frost tender plant, It prefers full sun, with well drained soil. Purple sage is the most effective medicinal variety of sage. Often made into tea to aid digestion, it has also been used as an anti inflammatory agent for insect bites, and to treat depression and insomnia.
4" pot size. | Rosa floribunda
Fabulous Rose is a fast growing and flowering bush with deep green foliage and fluffy looking creamy white flowers with a mild, sweet fragrance from late Spring.
- Fast growing
- High disease resistance
- Sweet fragrance
Bush form. | |
| Content | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last two centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. | |
