‘Dwarf’ is a very compact cultivar of ordinary garden sage, great for small areas, rockeries and borders. It reaches only 10″ tall. Salvia officinalis is the common garden sage widely known and used as a culinary herb in poultry stuffing, […]
Salvia officinalis ( Berggarten Sage )
‘Berggarten’ is a distinctive German cultivar of S.officinalis with a compact, dense habit and broad, gray-green rounded leaves. The flowers are a purple to blue and the height is 18″, spread 3′. A choice strain similar to ‘Holt’s Mammoth’ but […]
Salvia nemorosa ( East Friesland Sage )
This is a hardy, upright, highly-branched perennial, to 3′ tall and 24″ wide. Leaves are lanceolate to oblong, wrinkled, medium green, to 4″ long. Widely grown for its dense, dark violet-blue, spiked summer flowers, to 18″ tall, with bracts of […]
Salvia microphylla ( Ruth Stungo Sage )
From late summer to sutumn the species, S. microphylla, syn. S. grahamii blooms in paired or circular of 3 or more flowers in a magenta, pink or purple 1 inch long. This bushy, evergreen shrub or shrubby perennial have deep […]
Salvia leucantha ( Mexican Bush Sage )
A wonderful addition to the late summer or fall border. This subshrub has fuzzy, purple-pink and white flowers that go until frost. Superb when combined with ornamental grasses, joe-pye weed and sedums. Treat as an annual unless you’re in USDA […]
Salvia jamensis ( Pat Vlasto Mexican Sage )
This is a hardy, semi-shrubby, bushy perennial, to 3′ tall and 30″ wide. Leaves are ovate to elliptic, entire, medium green, to 1 1/2″ long. ‘Pat Vlasto’ has pinkish-orange flowers that are in tall, terminal spikes. Outstanding for mass plantings, […]
Salvia jamensis ( La Luna Mexican Sage )
This is a hardy, semi-shrubby, bushy perennial, to 39″ tall and 20″ wide. Leaves are ovate to elliptic, serrulate, medium green, to 1 1/2″ long. ‘La Luna’ has light yellow flowers in tall, terminal spikes, with creamy, hairy upper lips. […]
Salvia involucrata ( Rosyleaf Sage )
From late summer to midautumn, this subshrubby perennial, involucrata blooms in purplish red flowers, to 2 inches long with pink bracts that fall as the flowers open. Soft, egg-shaped, notched hairy green leaves to 5 inches long grow out of […]
Salvia hians ( Sage )
From the Himalayas, we get this pleasantly scented but short-lived perennial, hians. From early to late summer, purplish blue flowers 1 1/2 inches long, with white marked lower petals bloom out of the terminal spikes of the branched stem. Leaves […]
Salvia guaranitica ( Blue Enigma Sage )
S. guaranitica, syn. S. concolor of gardens, a subshrubby perennial blooms in beautiful deep blue flowers 2 inches long, with purplish blue sepals from late summer to late autumn. Wrinkled, egg-shaped green leaves, 5 inches long grow out of branched […]