{"id":612,"date":"2012-09-05T07:35:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T07:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herbaceousherbs.com.au\/?p=612"},"modified":"2012-09-05T07:35:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T07:35:17","slug":"sage-pineapple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herbaceousherbs.com.au\/sage-pineapple\/","title":{"rendered":"Sage &#8211; Pineapple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Common Name:<\/strong> Sage &#8211; Pineapple<\/p>\n<p><strong>Latin Name:<\/strong> Salvia elegans<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> Evergreen shrub with bright green pointed leaves that have a delicious pineapple-like scent. Scarlet flower racemes appear in summer and autumn. Perennial. 100cm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvesting:<\/strong> Harvest young leaves and flowers at any time. Best used fresh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Results:<\/strong> Prune by about a third after flowering in autumn to keep a bushy shape. At the beginning of spring once new shoots appear from the base, prune again quite hard to remove woody growth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses:<\/strong> Sprigs are added to cold drinks and fruit salads and leaves can be used to make tea. Delicious in pork dishes.<br \/>\nThe red flowers are edible and children often enjoy sipping on the nectar. Scatter the flowers over salads, fruit salads and desserts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Companion:<\/strong> Attracts nectar-loving birds, butterflies, and hoverflies to the garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Name: Sage &#8211; Pineapple Latin Name: Salvia elegans Description: Evergreen shrub with bright green pointed leaves that have a delicious pineapple-like scent. Scarlet flower racemes appear in summer and autumn. Perennial. 100cm. Harvesting: Harvest young leaves and flowers at any time. Best used fresh. Best Results: Prune by about a third after flowering in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbaceousherbs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbaceousherbs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbaceousherbs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbaceousherbs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbaceousherbs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/herbaceousherbs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbaceousherbs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbaceousherbs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbaceousherbs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbaceousherbs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}