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I don't know about you, but I find most of those pots purchased in a
super-market are so root bound they barely make it through a week.
There simply isn't enough soil for them to thrive. The only ones which
I've had survive were the ones I'd replanted immediately. I have one
sage plant in my home intensive care unit for plants. *Determined* am I
to get the poor thing to survive...just to prove I can! :-)

I used to work in a herb factory, and saved some stems of sage with the
beginnings of layered roots - now have a young sage forest.......

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Rusty Hinge
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