Salvias
23 plants in this collection
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- Salvia darcyi No photograph on file
- Salvia greggii "Furman's Red" No photograph on file
Salvia guaranitica "Black and Blue" $20.00 /Anise-Scented Sage
- Zones 7–10
- 4–6 ft
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![Salvia leucantha (Mexican bush sage) arching purple-and-white flower spikes]()
![Salvia leucantha 'Midnight' all-purple Mexican bush sage in bloom]()
- Salvia littae No photograph on file
![Salvia madrensis 'Red Neck Girl' forsythia sage with red-flushed square stems]()
- Salvia melissodora No photograph on file
- Salvia mexicana "Kelsi" No photograph on file
- Salvia meyeri No photograph on file
Salvia microphylla "Lutea" $20.00 /Yellow Littleleaf Sage
- Zones 8–9
- 1–3 ft
Reference plantView details →![Salvia microphylla 'Deltoid' salmon flowers over small triangular leaves]()
![Salvia microphylla 'Hot Lips' white flowers with bold red lips]()
- Salvia puberula No photograph on file
![Salvia 'Phyllis Fancy' long two-tone flower spikes]()
About the Salvias Collection
Salvias are the sages, a huge and generous tribe of aromatic, long-flowering plants that runs from hardy perennials to tender shrubs and everything between. Between them they cover an extraordinary range of color, from true blue and violet to scarlet, pink, and white, on plants that flower for months rather than weeks. The pungent foliage, which deer and other browsers tend to walk past, is a bonus on top of the bloom.
In the landscape salvias are the engine room of the long-season border. They carry color from late spring deep into fall, hold up to heat and drought once established, and mix as easily into a naturalistic planting as a formal one. Tall kinds give spires and structure; low ones edge a path or fill a container; and nearly all of them repay a light cut-back with a fresh flush of flower.
We grow salvias for their unmatched value to pollinators and their sheer, forgiving generosity. Tubular salvia flowers are built for bees, butterflies, and above all hummingbirds, which work them from spring to frost, and the plants ask for little more than sun and drainage in return. Few groups give a garden so much life for so little trouble.
Give them full sun and sharp drainage, go easy on water and feed, and cut them back to keep the flowers coming. Weave them through our Herbaceous Perennials, lean on them in our Sun Lovers and Drought-Tolerant Plants collections, and find the natives among our Southeastern Natives.
