14-03-2003, 08:53 AM
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Sage
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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
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smeckler wrote:
I have a very old looking sage plant in my incredibly neglected (rental!)
garden.
It's largely overshadowed by some horrible shrub and looks pretty
miserable,
with a huge mass of long, tangled woody stems and just a few sprigs of
foliage at the ends. I'd like to help it - it smells wonderful - is there
anything I can do?
No. Anything you try will probably kill it. Sow some seed in a
pot of well-drained compost, and you will get a decent sized pot
plant this year and a large one next. And, of course, you can
put it in the soil when convenient. Sage is not a long-lived plant
in most of the UK, because it isn't desperately keen on the wet.
However, it's extremely easy to grow from cuttings or layers; so I
suggest the OP tries both. Do the layers into pots. For cuttings, just
rip them off, stick in the soil where you want to have plants, and some
of them are sure to take.
Janet.
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