Our Sage is blooming!!  I planted a 4 inch pot of sage about 10 years ago, and it just keeps growing and getting prettier.  

 

Botanically, sage is Salvia officinalis, and has been praised throughout history for its powers of longevity.  Even the name salvia from Latin, means to be in good health, to cure, to save.  

 

Sage is valuable as an aid to digestion of fatty foods.  My sister likes to serve sage leaves along with cheeses at happy hour.  She puts the sage leaves in a little vase next to the cheese tray.  I love that idea.  We use the leaf as a cracker for the cheese.  And of course, we sprinkle the flowers in our salad.  

 

You can see, there are lots of flowers right now.  They taste like...sage.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!