This versatile herb can spice up recipes and provide wonderful foliage and aroma to the perennial or herb garden. Sage is a perennial herb that's often used for flavoring poultry, stuffing, sausage, lamb, pork, wild game and many other foods. Its rough-textured, oval, fragrant leaves are very attractive, and sage plants can also provide an ornamental backdrop in flower beds and containers as well as cut and dried flower arrangements. Sage can even be trained as a bonsai. Growing 18-30 in. tall, sage is suitable for growing in a containers.