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  • Salvia

    (Sage)
    Lamiaceae

    A genus whose popularity has risen exponentially in recent times. Offering a diverse range of form and colour there is a Salvia for nearly every garden situation with more and more being discovered and described all the time. The count now stands somewhere in excess of 1000, including subspecies, according to The Plant List. They are found on every continent except Antarctica.

    From a gardeners perspective they can not all be treated the same, they come from many different climates after all, but as a rule of thumb can be grouped into winter rainfall and summer rainfall species and with few exceptions they all prefer well drained soil.

    Soft leaved species from Central and South America are usually autumn and winter flowering. Coming from summer rainfall areas they typically need protection from dry heat and the accompanying high light intensity and they vary in their tolerance of winter damp. As with most plants the larger the leaves the more water they require, this also dictates how fast they grow with many growing several metres in a single season.

    Species from south western North America, South Africa, the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands are all winter growers and are tolerant or demanding of dry heat and summer drought. Slower growing but usually longer lived these all tend to have small, densely haired, silver or grey leaves or a combination of these traits which help them conserve moisture. Most of these require no additional water in Perth and are well adapted to our climate. They tend tend to flower from spring into summer.


    Prune back to where vigorous new basal growth is seen, never to dead wood, they appear to store little food in their stems and without leaves stand a chance of starving to death or at least struggle to regenerate. The exception is those few that are tuberous or clump forming, these can be cut to ground level once the stems start dying back in late autumn.
    • pomifera   CAG02369

      (Apple sage)
      Height80cmWidth60cmFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterLLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A small and elegant shrub from stony hillsides in southern Greece with felty, soft grey, broadly lance shaped leaves. Slender branching stems bear soft blue, two lipped flowers emerging from clusters of long lasting rosy bracts, delightfully full of promise in bud.

      Easily among the most beautiful in the genus and the envy of gardeners in damper climates, being intolerant of much summer humidity and water, probably short lived on the eastern seaboard. Claire Woods reinforces the point nicely in this post. Fond of limestone but easily grown in any very well drained sunny soil, the leaner the better.

      Gall wasps parasitize the plant in its natural home and the resultant galls, or apples as the common name suggests, are apparently quite a delicacy. The gall wasps here have yet to provide me with these tasty treats.

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