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pineapple sage?
From: jshiman@spambegone.mindspring.com
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: pineapple sage?
Does anyone have advice on how to care for pineapple sage? I just got one and have heard they are rather high maintenance. Thanks in advance,
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From: michelle <dparker@algonquin.round.table.org>
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: pineapple sage?
The grow really fast and require a good dousing of water once a day during hot weather. I try not to allow the pot to completely dry out, but the plant does recover pretty well if it becomes parched. That's not recommended though. I use Osmocote in the soil, but if you don't, feed occasionally with some good liquid fertilizer. If you want more plants, cuttings root quickly in water.
I bruise the leaves and allow it to infuse a nice flavor in lemonade.
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From: kiewicz@wwnet.com (Pat Kiewicz)
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: pineapple sage?
They aren't frost hardy (here anyway), but I wouldn't call them high-maintainance. I stick one in the ground and by Sept. it is a big shrubby thing with scarlet flowers. It gets winter-killed and the next spring I get another one. (I like the pineapple scent, and the scarlet flowers...) I plant it in a fairly sandy, barely ammended section of my garden where I grow other herbs, BTW, so it doesn't appear to need a rich soil to do well. It does get some supplemental water, though.
Now, if you were trying to keep one in a pot perennially, it would probably require some extra care, and supplemental light in the winter to keep it going indoors.
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From: animaux@ix.netcom.com(m&v)
Newsgroups: rec.gardens
Subject: Re: pineapple sage?
I started with one 2 dollar plant and it is now almost a ground cover in that part shade spot. Of course, it is sometimes hardy down here in Dallas, sometimes not, but it has returned each year since it is in the ground for 4 years in a row, and has spread each year. I don't have it in full sun, but when I did, I had to water it a few times a day...it seemed. It is not hardy above zone 8a.
Victoria
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