Award winning temperennial salvia (check your hardiness zone!) with large deep purple blooms emerging from eye catching black calyces. Blooms continuously from early summer through fall on a relatively compact and well-branched plant. Although the exact parentage is unknown it is thought to be a hybrid of S. gesnerifolia and S. guarantica.
- Plant Patent: 23,578
- Container Size:
- USDA Zone: 8-10
- Height: 3.5-4’
- Spread: 18”
- Sun Exposure: full sun to part shade
- Soil Moisture: average
- Bloom Time: late spring to fall
- Bloom Color: blue purple
- Foliage Color: green
- US Native: no
- Wildlife Benefit: pollinators, hummingbirds
- Notes: fragrant, deer tolerant