This plant is quite ornamental as well as edible, and is as much at home in a landscape or flower garden as it is in a designated herb garden. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen! As an herbaceous perennial, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, and will regrow from the base each spring. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 9 years. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 15 inches apart. Purple Sage will grow to be about 18 inches tall at maturity extending to 24 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 18 inches. It has no significant negative characteristics.Īside from its primary use as an edible, Purple Sage is sutiable for the following landscape applications It is a good choice for attracting bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. This is a high maintenance plant that will require regular care and upkeep, and can be pruned at anytime.
Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition. This is an herbaceous perennial herb with an upright spreading habit of growth. As an added bonus, the foliage turns a gorgeous deep purple in the fall.
Its attractive fragrant narrow leaves are purple in color with curious grayish green undersides. Purple Sage has masses of beautiful racemes of fragrant lilac purple flowers with blue overtones rising above the foliage from early to mid summer, which are most effective when planted in groupings. The leaves are most often used in the following ways: The leaves have a savory taste and a strong fragrance. The fragrant narrow purple leaves with curious grayish green undersides can be harvested at any time in the season. The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage įive of the six best songs here are on the debut the other one, in case you care, is Robert Hunter's "Kick in the Head." Docked two notches for uselessness, another for the "New Riders of the Purple Sage is a registered trademark," and yet another for putting a circle-R next to the title on the spine.Purple Sage is a perennial herb that is commonly grown for its edible qualities, although it does have ornamental merits as well.
And if your idea of country-rock singing is drawling at medium volume in the general vicinity of the correct pitch, you might think they're improving themselves by letting Dave Nelson and Dave Torbert take their turns at the mike. If your idea of adventure is getting wasted, you too might end up in bed with Panama Red. This time the originals are depressingly unoriginal, and the memory of the country, Motown, and rock classics they cover renders the voices pathetic.
Last time the offhand, dreamy mythos of the originals seemed designed for the thin, dreamy pathos of the voices, and even then the combination didn't wear very well except as pastoral Muzak. This diminutive, definitely mild-mannered c&w fantast betrays (I said betrays) none of the manipulative self-regard that marks the true wimp, and his voice suits the folkie-hippie casualness of the band's "country"-"rock." A feckless myth, to be sure-trucking women and heroic dopers, gentle aspiration and mysterious evil. Many find the weakness of John "Marmaduke" Dawson's singing an a priori turnoff, but I'm perversely attached to it. The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage D+.Robert Christgau: CG: New Riders of the Purple Sage
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