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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.
    • ‘Black Knight’   CAG00572
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A tender variety derived from the high altitude Brazilian species S. splendens commonly encountered in dwarf forms used in bedding schemes, performing dependably with good drainage, enough summer water and protection from wind, midday sun and frost. In the right location it will grow rapidly forming an erect shrub clothed in thinly textured, broadly lanceolate leaves, and bear short spikes of tubular, two lipped flowers in a scrumptious rich purple from darker bracts. Very showy, lush, and flowering almost year round.

      Thin old exhausted stems to make way for vigorous new basal growth when it is seen. Expect a life span of 3-4 years, better to replace tired plants with young fast growing new ones than to nursemaid them in senescence.

    • canariensis   CAG00576
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      An erect evergreen shrub. Unusually textured triangular leaves on white downy stems. Purple flowers are produced in summer through to autumn. Should prove tolerant of dry conditions. Cut back to 30cm in spring when new growth is seen.

    • candelabrum   CAG02223
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A stunning Spanish species with furry, slightly sticky, bluntly lance shaped leaves that stiffly clothe vertical stems giving a mounding shrub that appears soft, yet unyielding. As if its form alone was not enough it sends up tall airy scapes of showy, tubular, two lipped, rich purple, white throated flowers, large for a Salvia, in late spring and which continue well into summer.

      A unique addition to the gardeners palette of textural mediterranean plants. Easily grown in any sunny, well drained, unirrigated soil, typically the leaner, dryer and more exposed the better, and where it will usually self sow.

      Dogmatic adherence to rich, moist soil and summer watering will invariably lead to premature death.

    • ‘Christine Yeo’   CAG01434
      Salvia ‘Christine Yeo’
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A small, dense, evergreen shrubby Salvia, bearing for most of the year, small, broadly lipped, hooded, tubular flowers, the colour of crushed blueberries, on slender stems. Small, mid green, softly textured, broadly lance shaped to almost triangular leaves, with bluntly serrated margins, clothe the wirey, semi-erect branches.
      Prune as necessary during warm weather, whenever new basal growth can be seen.

      A hybrid between S. microphylla and S. chamaedryoides.

      A new Salvia that should prove extremely popular and hardy given it's parentage.

    • nemerosa ‘Amethyst’   CAG02118
      Salvia nemerosa ‘Amethyst’
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A clumping, evergreen, herbaceous, perennial. Mid - dark green, coarsely textured, 10cm long, lance shape leaves grow from a woody rootstock, to form dense mounds. From spring to late autumn, erect spikes of rosy-purple flowers appear in profusion on leafy stems growing flat to the ground. Cut back each stem as it finishes, more will come from the centre.

    • officinalis Broad   CAG02206
    • pachyphylla   CAG02284

      (Mountain desert sage, Blue sage, Rose sage, Purple sage)
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      Luminous blue-mauve tubular flowers emerge from whorls of rich rosy pink bracts tiered on erect spikes atop a low mound of, highly aromatic, silvery white spoon shaped leaves crowding stiff woody stems.

      One of the most spectacular members of the genus, from the high semi-deserts of California and surrounds and so strictly for drier inland gardens, with their more favourable extremes of heat and cold, where it will prove exceptionally hardy and very long lived. Excellent drainage is essential, with constant moisture, warmth and humidity tolerated only briefly. An occasional summer drink is appreciated but perhaps no more than once a month.

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