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  • Rosmarinus
    • officinalis ‘Roman Beauty’   CAG02681

      (Rosemary)
      Height25cmWidth60cmFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterLLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      The best prostrate Rosemary I've ever grown. White stems and fine needle like leaves that reveal their white underbelly lend a silvery appearance to a dense and trailing mound forming shrub with flowers of good clear blue-lavender.

      If it has a fault it is that it never grows as quickly as you would like it to.

      Tough and hardy in any reasonably drained soil as per other Rosemary but slow growth and finer form offers potential for container vignettes.

  • 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.
    • africana-lutea   CAG01454
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

    • apiana   CAG02005

      (White sage)
      Height50cmWidth1mFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterLLightFull Sun
      Salvia apiana
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A handsome sage demanding a hot, dry, exposed position where it will form a long lived, low woody shrub, clothed in intense silvery white lance shaped leaves. In spring thousands of small white flowers in dense tapering heads tower over the foliage on sturdy stems up to 2m high. The entire plant is highly aromatic, some might say pungent, smelling to me not unlike burnt rubber but considered lovely by many, especially bees who find the flowers irresistible.

      Easily among the best silver foliaged plants of all time, although it really is more white than silver.
      Try an un-irrigated super silver garden with others such as Centaurea cineraria, Epilobium canum subsp. canum and Salvia dorrii.
      Superb on road verges or against rammed earth walls where it looks right at home.

      Water until established and then at your own risk, an occasional summer watering is beneficial. Otherwise tolerant of any well drained soil.

      Best on the west coast. Not suitable for areas with high summer humidity (coastal Sydney northwards) but should fair well in the less humid interior.

    • canariensis   CAG00576
      Height2mWidth1.5mFlowering SeasonSu - AuWaterL - MLightFull Sun
      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.

    • disermas   CAG00729
      Height1.2mWidth1.2mFlowering SeasonAllWaterLLightSun
      Salvia disermas
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A mound forming Sage from South Africa, densely clothed in velvety, heavily textured, sage green, vaguely lance shaped leaves. Gentle spikes of white, sometimes pink tinged, hooded, two lipped flowers are endlessly produced all year.

      It's soft appearance and subtle charm make an ideal foil and background or otherwise planted with other mediterraneanesque shrubs like Cistus, Phlomis and Nepeta. I suspect the white form would look unusually appropriate by the coast, in the foreground of ocean views.

      Sumo-like in soil that is rich and moist (flabby and short lived). Superb in lean sand and unaffected by heat and drought.

      Older stems can be removed when new basal shoots emerge for a fresher appearance.

    • lanceolata   CAG01580
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

    • muirii   CAG01458
      Height1mWidth80cmFlowering SeasonSp - AuWaterM - LLightSun
      Salvia muirii
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      A low growing, stiffly branched, suckering, evergreen shrub from sandy soil in eastern South Africa. The grey-red stems are clothed in pairs of small, undulating, elliptical, grey green leaves. Deep sky blue, hooded, tubular flowers, each with a prominent, white splashed lip, emerge from pairs of reddish bracts along slender, sparsely leaved stems.
      Trim lightly when the accumulation of spent flower stems becomes to great to bear.

      An outstanding new introduction, proving to be very hardy to heat and exposure.

      We have great expectations for this plant and predict it will become a garden stalwart.

  • Santolina
  • Scabiosa
  • Stipa
    • gigantea   CAG01393

      (Golden oats, Giant feather grass)
      Height2mWidth1mFlowering SeasonSp - SuWaterLLightFull Sun
      CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE

      Among the best of all grasses in the mediterranean climate and undoubtedly one of the showiest of flower anywhere and deservedly popular because of it.

      Sturdy, stiffly angled stems are topped with open panicles of golden-straw coloured, oat-like spikelets to float well above the loose, knee-high, clump of narrow, blue-green, nondescript foliage, which tends to disappear among low plants. For ethereal height and dreaminess, glowing when back lit by early morning or late afternoon sun and often seen used to stunning effect by savvy gardeners.

      Indestructible in any lean, well drained, sunny soil, summer irrigation is superfluous. A cool season grass from Spain, Portugal and Morocco that needs a couple of years to settle in and flower well, and then becoming more impressive with time. Remove spent flowers when their long season of interest is over, don't cut back, its not that kind of grass, better to divide and replant in the cool of autumn if it ever becomes too untidy but this is typically a symptom of over watering and/or inadequate exposure.

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