I thought the well growing herb in my backyard was basil. It was my mother-in-law, who clearly is better with herb recognition than I, who pointed out I had a good crop of salvia. Salvia is sage. Sage is salvia. It is the genus name for a host of plants in the mint family. The salvia family includes Diviner’s Sage, a psychotropic drug I didn’t know much about until I read a very cool book about called Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities.

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