Clary Sage
As I start to plan my garden this spring, I’m once again adding more herbs. They smell wonderful and are great for cooking. Plus, they typically seem so hardy. Herbs are also a great source of essential oils. One such plant is Clary Sage.Clary Sage native to southern Europe, but cultivated worldwide, especially in the Mediterranean region, is a stout biennial or perennial herb up to 1 meter high with large, hairy leaves, green with a hint of purple, and small blue flowers. The oil is obtained by steam distillation from the flowering tops and leaves. Though employed in ancient times and in the Middle Ages for its curative properties, it seems to have fallen into disuse as a medicinal plant, though revived to a certain extent towards the end of the nineteenth century.
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