Sage - Salvia officinalis
Culinary use:
Not only is sage a key ingredient in chicken or turkey stuffing, it's a good, useful herb in wintery stews and casseroles and is also good with a lot of pork dishes and pasta.
Cultivars and varieties:
Salvia 'Dyson's Joy' [AGM] - Two coloured flowers, pale pink petals with darker, purple sepals (calyces).
Salvia 'Joy' [AGM] - Two coloured flowers, pale pink petals with darker, purple sepals (calyces).
Salvia greggii 'Joy' [AGM] - Two coloured flowers, pale pink petals with darker, purple sepals (calyces).
Salvia jamensis 'Hot Lips' [AGM] - An evergreen shrub, growing to a metre tall and a metre wide. Small scented leaves. The first flush of flowers are fully white or fully red, subsequent, later flowers are white and bright red. It will continue to flower until the first frosts.
Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips' - The flowers are red early in the season, but appear white with red tips from early summer.
Seeds to sow now:
Indoors or in a greenhouse
Antwerp hollyhock, Fig-leaved hollyhock, Hollyhock
Bristly hollyhock
Outside
What else to plant now:
Apple & pear trees (bare rooted)
Roses (bare rooted)
Cyclamen
Outside under cover
Onion
Pea
Potato Onion
