In my mind, I can picture the purple sage, the cactus, the coyotes and the rattlers sunning themselves on rocks.

Fifteen years ago the two men started growing a velvety purple sage that they'd found in a Connecticut nursery.

Zane Grey immortalized it as the purple sage, but most of the year it's more of a silver gray.

The plain, stretching away to a distant haze of mountains, was covered with a luxuriant growth of purple sage.

The travelers now set out across the plain which Was covered with purple sage.

Thyme cascaded over the sides, purple sage flourished and rosemary spread through an entire box.

But what few people know is that before Grey became a writer of the purple sage, he worked as a dentist in Manhattan.

Beyond Saguache the wide plain between the mountains became a sweep of purple sage, interspersed with dead brown earth.

The only sounds are the calls of birds and wind rustling through the purple sage and tall grass.

Cultivated forms include purple sage and red sage.