Salvia elegans 'Tangerine Sage' (Tangerine sage)
Other names: Fruit scented sage
'Tangerine Sage' is a tender, tall perennial with tangerine scented leaves and narrow trumpet shaped flowers in late summer.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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1-2 years to maturity |
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Salvia (any tender or borderline hardy perennial variety) are tender, upright, deciduous or semi-evergreen shrubs, sometimes grown as annuals, with aromatic leaves and, from summer into autumn, dense, racemes of flowers in a variety of colours.
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2.5m max. spread |
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2.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Other names: Painted sage, Horminum sage
S. viridis is an upright annual that has either pink or purple flowers and very decorative bracts throughout the summer and into the autumn.
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0.4m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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1 year to maturity |
Other names: California white sage, Bee sage, Sacred sage
S. apiana is a tender, bushy, evergreen perennial or subshrub with aromatic, waxy, linear-lance-shaped, silver-grey leaves and upright stems bearing whorls of lavender-flushed, white flowers in late spring or early summer.
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1.3m max. spread |
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1.3m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Salvia x jamensis (Hybrid Mexican sage)
Other names: James sage
S. x jamensis is a bushy, borderline hardy, semi-evergreen shrub with ovate, toothed, mid-green leaves and, in summer and autumn, terminal racemes of red, rose-pink, orange, salmon or pale yellow flowers.
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0.5m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Salvia darcyi (Darcy's Mexican sage)
Other names: Darcy's sage, Fiery sage, Galeana red sage, Red mountain sage
S. darcyi is an upright, bushy, clump-forming, semi-evergreen sub-shrub with aromatic, sticky, heart-shaped, light to mid-green leaves and open racemes of hooded, red or orange-red flowers from summer into autumn.
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2m max. spread |
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1.2m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Salvia involucrata (Rosy-leaf sage)
Other names: Rosebud sage
S. involucrata is a tall, sub-shrubby perennial with ovate to heart-shaped, tapering, softly hairy dark green leaves and, from late summer to mid-autumn, dense, terminal racemes of purple-red flowers with prominent pink bracts that fall as the flowers open.
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1m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Other names: Honey sage
S. mellifera is a borderline hardy, rounded, dense, evergreen shrub with upright stems bearing aromatic, oblong to lance-shaped, deeply veined, olive-flushed, dark green leaves, woolly beneath, and dense whorls of tubular, two-lipped, lightly fragrant, white, pale blue, or pale lavender flowers in late spring.
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1.5m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Salvia pratensis (Meadow clary)
Other names: Meadow sage, Wild sage, Blue sage, Gentian sage
S. pratensis is an upright, clump-forming, woody-based, herbaceous perennial with ovate, toothed, wrinkled, mid-green leaves and erect, somewhat sticky-hairy stems bearing terminal spikes of whorled, violet, rarely pink or white flowers in early summer.
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0.3m max. spread |
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0.9m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Other names: Large-flowered sage , Blue sage
S. indica is a half-hardy, clump-forming, hairy, deciduous to semi-evergreen perennial with ovate to broadly lance-shaped, grey-green leaves and tiered whorls of two-lipped, lavender flowers with purple and brown marks on the lower lips.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
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