Sage, Berggarten

Salvia officinalis `Berggarten'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2x3 feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Borders, , Culinary, , Medicinal
Culinary Sages

Broad, oval shaped leaves on this compact plant make 'Berggarten' easier to use. It's so much nicer, there are few reasons to buy the common sage anymore. "Flash fry" leaves in a bit of olive oil, only about 30 sec. Remove. Cool. Crumble & use like bacon bits. Rated great variety for southern states. In the north, unfortunatly, it rarely blooms as flowering tips freeze off.
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Sage, Berggarten Variegated

Salvia officinalis 'Variegated Berggarten'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 9b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 2 x 3 feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Spring
Common Uses: Alpine Rockery, Bees, Borders, Butterfly, Culinary, Medicinal, Ornamental, Potpourri, Soap Making
Culinary Sages
New in 2006
Mark gained this cool variegated plant from Scott Kresge (Emily May Garden Shop in Pen Argyl, PA) at the Herb Society of America's Cleveland Conference. Just as winter hardy as 'Berggarten' with clean, blue-green and white variegation on a leaf that is closer to the slender outline of straight S. officinalis. Prune out anything that reverts.
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Sage, Garden Dwarf

Salvia officinalis 'Compacta' (Nana)
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 x 2 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Medicinal, , Ornamental
Culinary Sages

Because it's an exact miniature version of common sage without the "unkept" look, it's a natural for mixed containers and child-sized hedges. Plus it's covered with blue flower spikes in the spring. Use 1 tsp (fresh) per pound of pork to make sausage, or add to the classic turkey dressing.
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Sage, Garden Golden Variegated

Salvia officinalis 'Icterina'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 12 x 24 Inches
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Early Winter
Common Uses: Bees, , Culinary, , Medicinal
Culinary Sages

Our stock plants survived -18 F degrees last winter, from which we took your cuttings. Leaves have brillant yellow margins around green centers. These obedient golden mounds create a 7-8 month show, here, in front of "Bronze Fennel", "Purple Ruffles Basil" or, like one of our favorite beds, in the midst of other sages.
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Sage, Garden Purple

Salvia officinalis 'Purpurea'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental
Culinary Sages

Purple colored new leaves turn green as they mature, giving plant a bi-colored look. "Purple Sage" offers great color contrast and flavor. Hardy in northern Ohio in all but the coldest winters.
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Sage, Garden Tricolor

Salvia officinalis 'Tricolor'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 2-3 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental
Culinary Sages

Pink, white and green colored leaves make a display in the garden or on the dinner table.
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Sage, Garden White Flowering
Salvia officinalis 'Alba'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 6 - 18 inches
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Flowers: Late Spring
Common Uses: Bees, Culinary, Medicinal
Culinary Sages

Smaller than garden sage, with beautiful white flowers from May until Mid-June. Underplant with tulips for a space saving, lovely combination. Same uses as parent. Sage shampoo supposedly darkens the gray. It's easy to try. Just add leaves to your favorite shampoo. Results not guaranteed.
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Sage, Newe Ya’ar’
Salvia X New'e Yare
Cold Tolerance: Zone 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun
Height: 2 x 3 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Borders, , Culinary, , Medicinal
Culinary Sages

Finally, a garden sage for the deep south! This is an Israeli variety bred to mimic the humidity tolerance of the tropical Sage, but the flavor of Salvia officinalis. Long, "Garden Sage-" like leaves provide plenty of harvest for your next meal.
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Salad Burnet (Di-yu)
Sanguisorba minor
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 4-18 inches
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Groundcover, , Medicinal
Crumble cucumber flavored young shoots and fruit over salads and infuse in vinegars and tomato juice. Older semi-evergreen leaves are tough, best left unused. Its rosette form looks lacy in herbal lawns. Referred to in Chinese medicine as "Di-yu" and is used to stop bleeding.
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Samphire \ Sea Fennel
Crithmum maritimum
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Dry
Soil: Sandy-Well Drained
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Culinary
Jar Gem

Rare plant to find & even more difficult to research. Native to British cliffs where it has long been used as a salt substitute & and essential ingredient for pickles. Blue-green, highly dissected fleshy succulent looks really.... WEIRD! Our Jamaica Bay, NY customer told us she didn't mind an occasional splash from the bay-you just don't want to lose it at high tide.
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Santolina, Dwarf Gray

Santolina chamaecyparissus 'Nana'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 18 inches
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Ornamental, , Repellant
Rock Garden

Same bright yellow buttons, but on silvery-gray, soft foliage. Also used in hedges, knot and rock gardens. Prune in spring after new growth appears. Working at Cedar Point one summer, I had to prune Santolina regularly. I know this sounds weird, but it reminded me of bologna. Moth repellent too.
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Santolina, Green

Santolina pinnata (virens)
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 4 inches to 2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Ornamental, , Repellant
Creamy yellow button blossoms dance over green feathery foliage in July. Can be clipped into a short hedge, in spring after new growth slowly appears or let it grow to 2'. Clipping will prevent flowering. Dry bunches for moth repellent bags.
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Santolina, Rosemary-leaf
Santolina rosmarifolia
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 - 2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Ornamental, , Repellant
It may sport the bright yellow buttons you're used to seeing on the regular santolina but the foliage is more blue and leathery, i.e., like a rosemary. Like the others, it can be clipped into a short hedge (preventing flowering), in spring after new growth appears, or allowed to grow to 2'. Dry bunches for moth repellent bags. It is a slow comer in spring.
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Savory, Summer Improved
Satureja X `Aromata'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Culinary, , Medicinal
This annual savory has a more intense aroma & flavor than the common variety due to it's higher essential oil content and it is packed with needle-like leaves. Plenty to harvest for peppery flavors in vinegars, salads, any beans, and omelettes. Gargle tea for sore throat.
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Savory, Winter

Satureja montana subs. montana
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Bees, , Culinary, , Medicinal
Winter Savory is "Summer Savory's" hardy, spicier cousin, as "Greek Oregano" is to "Sweet Marjoram." Use care with the robust flavor of this salt and pepper alternative. The German name "Bohnen-kraut" translates to "bean herb." Flowers are white like a summer "Candytuft".
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Savory, Winter Dwarf
Satureja montana subsp. montana 'Nana'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 6 inches
Water: Normal
Soil: Full Sun
Common Uses: Bees, , Culinary, , Miniature/Faery Garden
Alpine, Rock Garden

An exact dwarf version of "Winter Savory", with small, glossy leaves and delicate white flowers. Such a sweet, creeping herb, that's simply irresistable to faeries or in a rock garden. Alpine variety with all the same uses as the parent plant, but less to harvest. For gardeners and collectors with minimal space.
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Savory, Winter Dwarf Creeping
Satureja montana subsp. montana var. prostrata
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Full Sun
Common Uses: Bees, , Bonsai, , Container, , Culinary, , Groundcover, , Miniature/Faery Garden
Rock Garden

Our "Winter Dwarf Savory" is a much smaller leaved variety than what is around in the nursery trade. Just watch and you will quickly discover that this creeping herb, with curled, miniature leaves and delicate small white blossoms which is one of the bees' favorites. It's another godsend for those on salt restricted diets. Rock garden, bonsai, and hypertufa pot herb make it an all around charming miniature container plant.
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Soapwort, Creeping White
Saponaria officinalis `Snow Tip'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 6-12 inches
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Ornamental
Are you familiar with “White Candytuft?” Well this beauty starts flowering about the same time and continues about 4 weeks after “Candytuft’s” finished. White blossoms, shown off by it’s green foliage, form a nice compact mound for a perennial border or rock garden. Just as good as “Creeping Catmints,” for planting in between roses.
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Soapwort, Double Pink
Saponaria officinalis 'Flora Plena'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 18-24 inches
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Cut Flower, , Soap Making
In Ohio and many other places, the regular species is an invasive weed,(which we no longer offer in good conscience) but not this one! Full double clusters of bright pink flowers bloom all summer yet they'll not reseed. Still has humble lathering action. A gift from Elaine Kudela, a friend and retired herb grower.
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Soapwort, Mulberry Creek Variegated
Saponaria officinalis 'Variegata' MCF Form
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b
Light: Full Sun
Height: 18 - 24 inches
Water: Normal
Soil: Any Soil
Common Uses: Butterfly, , Cut Flower, , Soap Making
We’ve worked on this Mulberry Creek introduction for 4 years to develop a stable, variegated pattern. Finally, yellow and striped leaves update this old fashion, pink flowering cottage garden essential. Comparatively, it is less aggressive in spreading, re-seeding and flowering, but wow does it brighten up the garden! I don’t mind it’s mild demeanor. Demi Bown, author of New Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses, upon visiting us, said we had choosen very well, but that this is still only the 'Variegata' form.
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Society Garlic
Tulbaghia violacea
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Organic-Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental
Jar Gem

As with most green varieties, this grows larger and more vigorously than its variegated cousin. 2-3” pale lavender balls appear well above foliage & as garlic tidbits over salads, but start sparingly. Excellent substitute for overused spikes as a linear texture for mixed containers. Much more winter hardy than it looks!
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Sorrel, Blood
Rumex sanquineus ssp. sanguineus
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to P. Shade
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary, , Ornamental, , Water
We thought you'd enjoy it's blood red veins that run throughout the emerald green leaves for a welcome contrast to all our green herbs. Please tell your garden visitors where you got it. They will ask! Flowers the second year. A tangy salad green along with "Pepper Basil." This has become a popular pond plant.
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Sorrel, Flower Free
Rumex acetosa 'Sterile'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 4a 4b 5a 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b
Light: Full Sun to P. Shade
Height: 1 Foot
Water: Normal
Soil: Loamy
Common Uses: Culinary
All the great tasting leaves and uses as "Garden Sorrel", without the "weedy" seeds. In fact, it makes no flower stalks at all. This allows it to put all of its energy into producing an abundance of great tasting leaves. Introduced to us by Richters in Canada.
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St. Johnswort, Improved
Hypericum perforatum 'Topas'
Cold Tolerance: Zone 5b 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b-11
Light: Full Sun to Full Sun
Height: 1-2 Feet
Water: Normal
Soil: Sandy-Loamy
Common Uses: Medicinal
Oh St. Johnswort! I gotta try it. What's it for anyway? This particular cultivar may have the highest content of hypericin (the active ingredient) that we've found, but you need to do your own medicinal research. Summer brings small yellow flowers with smaller leaves than the landscape variety. Used medicinally as an antidepressant, antiviral, antispasmodic and wound healer. As with all herbs- use carefully.
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