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.

[@thatguychris5654]

In zone 6 here in north-central Virginia this sage can still be a perennial. Planted in native clay with compost, covered in wood chips, against a block wall. 1/2 day full sun, with other sages and rosemary as neighbors. It completely dies back in late November, and I cut it down to the ground in January. By spring, new shoots come from the roots, each year reaching about 4ft tall. Create a microclimate and you can shift by a zone or two 😉

[@GoldenBoy-et6of]

My pineapple sage is 3 yrs old and one is 5 ft tall and 5 ft wife while the other is 7 ft tall and 9 ft wide! I live in zone 8b but my town is a zone 9b , I live right next to the ocean which is why my temps are lower than just a 60 second walk inland! Pineapple sage grows better than most things I grow! It's the only thing I've got giant bushes of and I take cuttings every year and it becomes twice as dense and twice as tall everytime! I'm making a hedge out of them with all the rooted cuttings I already have from last winter and the thousands I'll have this winter!

[@piscesrain8882]

Just bought a plant today , thanks for the information it was helpful and you're delightful as well ! I fell in love with the smell at the nursery . Your back ground view is beautiful , lucky you !

[@missmartpants2269]

I cut up some leaves and mixed it with chopped strawberries and sweetened it up. It was so good. It added a very fresh flavor. God bless!

[@duanpuralsfreshbakedmemes6282]

Just bought a Watermelon Sage and love it....it smells so good!

[@Green-talk]

I dry it and sell it at my Etsy shop. It isn't as strong as culinary sage when dried so it doesn't overpower your dishes. Thanks for the information about its possible medicinal benefits. I am zone 6 so I grow it as an annual. It gets quite big.

[@tameraward5112]

Very cool thanks! hope youre still having fun w it :)

[@shineisland7447]

Just smelling it makes me smile

[@Deliciousobsessions]

I loved this video Amanda! I love your little inserts of humor as you're talking about herbs. Keep them coming! P.S. Good luck on the diet! 😊

[@FreshBitesDailySite]

+Delicious Obsessions Awww, thank you Jessica. Ohhhh, and thank you on the diet. Ugh.

[@lucidlumee]

awesome !!! thanks

[@judithsmith9319]

champagne vinegar is a wonderful vinegar so it does not work against the flavors...works especially well with citrus fruit as a dressing vinegar

[@ladyslipper8753]

I imagine it would make lovely jelly. My hummingbirds enjoy the flowers so I should too! The leaves I use in tea.

[@Ellie-yx8ni]

This past spring I bought 2 little $3.99 pots of this at Home Depot in their herb transplant area. They grew like crazy in my SC zone 8A garden. Easily 6 feet tall. The bees and butterflies LOVE the deep red flowers on it. The plants are quite pretty with lovely green leaves. The flowers are pretty tossed in a salad too. I make sweet tea with regular tea and add some fresh pineapple sage leaves to the tea as it steeps. It has a delicate sweetness so I can avoid adding any refined sugar to my tea. I don't like it real sweet. I am going to dry a bunch to make more tea over the winter.

[@georgemanko436]

thank you

[@timshel011]

Interesting video. I happen to be checking out Pineapple Sage because I enjoy growing it here in Massachusetts. I presently have it in the house (November 29th) . Nice to see that you're using Low Carb. Don't think of it as a diet, it's a lifestyle. Also, exercise makes you feel good but won't help with weight loss. It's your body fat percentage which is more important. Even though I'm not diabetic I regularly use a glucometer to monitor my blood "sugar". That's a real game changer.

[@minzalyakhabibullina5401]

hei, kan you say how it is staying in the house, in dark place ?

[@flashylights]

You had me at rum🤗🤗

[@keishatackett4879]

I wish I could get my hands on some pineapple sage. I haven’t seen it here in Florida.

[@beetickler6418]

Home Depot and Lowes in Virginia sold it in 2021.

[@nomparfait]

😌How about the recipe (ratios) for that mixer! ☺😊 Sounds quite yummy

[@TrexChick]

my pineapple sage flowered and attracted lovely honey bees. however i only had one plant in the yard and i think it won’t be able to seed without cross pollination. is this the case?

[@beetickler6418]

My bees like it, too. This year I stripped off the dries "seeds" and threw them around. Don't really know if they are seeds.

[@TruthMatters357]

Hope you are still around, does this help with menopause symptoms?

[@juliewatts6145]

Black cohosh does

[@davidthedeaf]

I have evidence that to reduce depression and anxiety in mice, remove all cats. 😂

[@randkell]

And what diet ........ May I ask?

[@FreshBitesDailySite]

+randkell Low carb works for me but I think it may be because I get so tired of eating that I end up eating less. :) What I really need is a lot more exercise.

[@jonathanandvelvet]

I like you!

[@banjoboymcgee]

So it is "on the wagon" eh?

[@FlaMan991]

it doesn't bloom

[@martydarts8632]

yeah..lol..anti-depressive diet..love it..you need a man...i know..i need a woman