{"id":2647,"date":"2015-07-27T08:31:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T08:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2015-07-27T08:53:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T08:53:40","slug":"salvia-sclarea-clary-sage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/salvia-sclarea-clary-sage\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvia Sclarea &#8211; Clary sage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This plant was commonly used for an eye wash which is where it gets it&#8217;s common name from. It has a range of interesting chemicals in it that have antibiotic characteristics. But it also has a history of being eaten as a vegetable. The flowers and leaves are supposedly edible &#8211; I make no health representations about that &#8211; but they are kinda tasty if you cook them in a light batter\u00a0like a Tempura.<\/p>\n<p>It has very large fleshy and hairy leaves.<\/p>\n<p>It grows quite easily and is pretty much a perennial in my garden even going under snow in winter and up to 37C heat during summer. It grows to about 1 meter and then when it flowers they extend to about 1.5m high.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to thrive on neglect and likes it bit on the dry side. but the new leaves in mid to late winter are very tasty and soft etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfaf.org\/user\/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Salvia+sclarea\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pfaf.org\/user\/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Salvia+sclarea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This plant was commonly used for an eye wash which is where it gets it&#8217;s common name from. It has a range of interesting chemicals in it that have antibiotic characteristics. But it also has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/Salvia_sclarea.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ccXI-GH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}