On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:41:08 -0000, 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?

Cut back the overshadowing horrible so your sage gets more sun.
Then cut the sage itself back *hard* -- right to the base of the
stems.

As insurance, transform the sage prunings into cuttings (iow,
just take the tips off, a couple of inches of stem and the
terminal leaves) and root them. They're dead easy to root. In
fact, they may root perfectly well simply dibbled into likely
spots.


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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada