Just realised that I posted this question on the fruit & veg forum, oops Quickly removed it so I can re-post here. I have three beautiful, lush sage-plants, but they just won't flower. In my previous garden I also had sage, but that one had flowers every year, even after I cut it back quite hard. Growing conditions in my current garden are similar. Help, what am I doing wrong?
Are you referring to Salvia officinalis the culinary species or one of the other Salvias grown for it's blooms...Mealy Sage, Autumn Sage, etc?
Shame nobody has any ideas on this one, because I do love those sage flowers. :'( I'll do one of my little experiments: this autumn I'll transplant one of the sage plants to my "2nd garden", to see if it will flower there next year.
They were planted when I moved in three years agne of them was lifted & re-planted last year. Neither of them give any flowers By the way, this sage has broader leaves than the sage I grew in my previous garden. Although both were labelled salvia officinalis, could there still be a difference?
Do the leaves look like these? They were rooted from sage bought in the fresh herb section of a grocery store. Jerry sage flowers ( photo / image / picture from Jerry Sullivan's Garden )
The flowering sage did look like yours, Jerry, the leaves were kind of narrow. Here's a picture of my 'non-flowering' sage, with rounder & bigger leaves (Now why didn't I place this right at the start of this post?? It would have made things a lot clearer I think. Silly me, eh? ) Salvia Officinalis ( photo / image / picture from gardenelf's Garden )
