{"id":9461,"date":"2020-11-27T02:01:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T02:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=9461"},"modified":"2020-11-27T02:01:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T02:01:34","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-322-salvia-officinalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/27\/plant-a-day-2020-day-322-salvia-officinalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 322) Salvia officinalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve been growing culinary sage for about fifteen years in the garden.  It grows easily in my yard and doesn\u2019t ask for anything\u2013that\u2019s why it has lasted this long.  Several years ago, I took a bunch of cuttings when I pruned the original mother plant and I later planted the cuttings in another garden.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plant has attractive leaves with a greyish bloom and nice texture.  They set some blue-purple flowers in the summer.  Of course, the fact that we can pick our own sage leaves and add them to any recipe comes in very handy.  We use them a lot over Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Salvia1.jpg?resize=474%2C631\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9465\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Salvia1.jpg?w=590 590w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Salvia1.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Salvia2.jpg?resize=474%2C355\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9466\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Salvia2.jpg?resize=1024%2C767 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Salvia2.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Salvia2.jpg?resize=768%2C575 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Salvia2.jpg?w=1049 1049w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Salvia2.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Salvia3.jpg?resize=474%2C631\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9467\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Salvia3.jpg?w=590 590w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Salvia3.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Future plans for these plants are to keep them trimmed and enjoy their nice contrasts and distinctive flavor.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been growing culinary sage for about fifteen years in the garden. It grows easily in my yard and doesn\u2019t ask for anything\u2013that\u2019s why it has lasted this long. Several years ago, I took a bunch of cuttings when I pruned the original mother plant and I later planted the cuttings in another garden. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/27\/plant-a-day-2020-day-322-salvia-officinalis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 322) Salvia officinalis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9468,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9461\/revisions\/9468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}