Is Purple Sage deer resistant?

Silver-gray leaves on rigid, often spiny branches, aromatic in the way that keeps a browsing animal moving, and for a few weeks in May and June the whole low mound turns blue.

The instruction from the people who grow it is blunt — never irrigate once established — and a drip line left running through summer will finish a settled plant faster than any winter will. Fast drainage, sand or decomposed granite, full sun, no feeding. That is the entire specification.

Softwood cuttings are the quickest way to get more; seed wants a cold, moist spell in the fridge before it will do anything. There is no hurry to tidy it after flowering either — the spent clusters dry on the stem and hold there for weeks, sometimes months, once the color has gone.