featured plant: brandegee’s sage

[first published in YLP Life, July 21, 2020, the Yosemite Lakes Park newsletter]

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A star of the California native plant garden is Brandegee’s Sage, Salvia brandegei.  It’s fast, lush, floriferous, resilient, deerproof and remarkably drought-tolerant.  Join me in my springtime garden, as I sit in a patch of this intoxicating sage, extolling its virtues.