Pineapple Sage: Why You're About to Love It (+ Fighting Depression & High Blood Pressure

This is a really great plant that is increasingly available in regular plant nurseries because it's just that cool. The flavor and fragrance is exquisite.

Pineapple sage is a salvia (Salvia Elegans), a native plant of Mexico. Here at Fresh Bites Daily, we love all salvias and California offers us many native salvias to have fun with (and a host of hybrids that make lovely additions to the garden). The herb hillside we show in the pineapple sage video has both lavender and sage, in a growing collection of native and hybrid salvias. We have optimal conditions here in the Sequoia National Forest for these zone 7-10 herbs but you can probably grow pineapple sage too, but perhaps as an annual plant. Make sure your planting soil has good drainage. Like all herbs, pineapple sage does not like to sit in water, though it certainly benefits from having regular water and moist roots.

As for depression and blood pressure, this plant makes a great tea and is easy to integrate into your life. There is not the level of research on effect or quantity, so you might look to it as a complementary therapy to whatever it is that you are already doing. It's hard to go wrong with a regular cup of pineapple sage tea.