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Plainview Farm :: Perennials :: Rheum-Stylophorum :: Salvia
Salvia | SAL-vee-ah | Ornamental Sage
With nearly 900 species, the versatile salvia gives gardeners a vast palette of colors and textures
from which to choose. The smart ones take full advantage of this bounty. Salvia can be found
native in most areas of the world—many to the humid tropics, the arid desert, or some other
inhospitable climate. Despite these origins, for New England, ornamental sage is useful and
colorful and drought-tolerant.
We like to place salvia with the silvers of artemisia or stachys and do so in the sunniest part
of the garden. They love the heat. After first flowering ends in late June, be sure to deadhead to
assure more flowers in early fall.
‘May Night’ was chosen the Perennial Plant of the Year in 1997.
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