Few groups of plants add as much to a garden as salvias. They are as diverse in fragrance as they are in bloom, habit and colour. Plants of beauty and bearing, salvias are especially popular with those who garden for pleasure, mainly because they are reliable plants which are easy to grow.
The genus Salvia has the truest blues and brightest reds of any group of plants, and some species also have strikingly large flowers.
Salvias are effective in a sunny border. Salvias provide brilliant colour for bedding, infilling or containers. They are a source of nectar and pollen for birds, butterflies and bees and will attract them to the garden.
They can be propagated with seeds and or cuttings. Some perennials can be divided in spring.
Grow salvias in light, moderately fertile, humus rich moist but well-drained soil in full sun to light, dappled shade.
They are reasonable immune from attacks from bad insects although snails may sometimes be a problem.
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Exotic: Salvia involucrata - Pink icicles
Common name: Salvia pink iciclesDescription: An upright exotic shrub with pale green heart shaped leaves. Whorls of tubular pale pink flowers in winter.[View all characteristics]
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Exotic: Salvia purpurea
Common name: Mexican purple sageDescription: A large bushy exotic shrub with cascading branching and quilted leaves. Fat panicles of gorgeous purple flowers in winter. Cut back hard in spring or leave and you have a wispy shrub![View all characteristics]
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Salvia - Apple Blossom
Common name: Salvia - Apple blossomDescription: A fast growing exotic perennial with pointed toothed pale green leaves. Long tubed coral flowers all season.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia - Black and Blue
Common name: Anise scented sageDescription: A creeping exotic perennial with vibrant blue flowers with a black calyx all season. Cut back in winter.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia - Burning embers
Description: A woody based exotic perennial with rusty stems and tall spikes of fragrant orangey coral flowers all season. Cut back after flowering. Attracts bees, butterflies and moths.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia - Costa Rica Blue
Common name: Sage - Costa Rica blueDescription: A fast growing exotic shrub with rich blue violet flowers all season. Prune hard twice a season. Lovely as a filler in a new garden.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia - Flame
Common name: Salvia Flame Description: A much branched perennial with red lipped flowers, and aromatic leaves which turn red in autumn. Attracts bees. [View all characteristics]
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Salvia - Kew Red
Common name: Black currant sageDescription: Upright exotic perennial with aromatic elliptical scalloped leaves. Lipped cerise pink flowers all season.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia - Phyllis Fancy
Common name: Phyllis fancy sageDescription: Well branched and floriferous shrub with crinkled aromatic leaves and fuzzy white flowers with blue bracts. Cut back hard in early spring. Birds butterflies and bees.[View all characteristics]
R75.00 | This item is currently out of stock.
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Salvia - Royal distinction
Common name: Woodland sageDescription: Compact exotic perennial with crinkled dull green leaves. Tall spikes of rose red flowers from spring - summer.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia azurea
Common name: Prairie sageDescription: A multistemmed exotic perennial
with lax growth with linear leaves.
Panicles of true blue two lipped flowers. Good cut flower. Gorgeous.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia blepharophylla - Diablo
Common name: Eyelash sageDescription: A spreading exotic perennial with ovate, toothed, small eyelash type hairy dark green leaves. Racemes of vivid scarlet flowers. [View all characteristics]
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Salvia canariensis
Common name: Canary Island sageDescription: A rounded robust shrub with woolly leaves and purple flowers which is difficult to propogate. Attracts birds, bees and butterflies.[View all characteristics]
R75.00 | This item is currently out of stock.
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Salvia chiapensis
Common name: Chiapas sageDescription: A gorgeous Mexican perennial with glossy deeply veined leaves on airy stems and whorls of cerise flowers. Plants still very small.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia dolomitica
Common name: Wooly leafed sageDescription: A well shaped shrub with aromatic grey green leaves. Pale blue flowers with white centres and maroon bracts. [View all characteristics]
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Salvia gesneriiflora
Common name: Mexican salviaDescription: Multistemmed exotic subshrub.
Aromatic heart shaped leaves.
Tubular orange red flowers from winter - spring.
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Salvia guarantica - Amistad
Common name: Sage - AmistadDescription: A NEW floriferous shrub with pointed toothed pale green leaves and long tubed purple flowers. Attracts birds and butterflies.[View all characteristics]
R75.00 | This item is currently out of stock.
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Salvia guarantica - Argentina skies
Common name: Description: A stoleniferous exotic shrub with pale blue flowers with a green calyx all season. Cut right back in winter.
Small pale blue flowers all season[View all characteristics]
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Salvia involucrata - Joan
Common name: Salvia JoanDescription: Woody based exotic perennial with aromatic pale green leaves.
Floriferous with cerise flowers. [View all characteristics]
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Salvia involucrata - Mulberry jam
Common name: Description: A woody based exotic perennial with aromatic dark green leaves. Floriferous with sprays of cerise flowers all season. Attracts bees, butterflies and moths[View all characteristics]
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Salvia Javier
Common name: Salvia - JavierDescription: A stunning perennial with black calyx and purple blue flowers. Attracts bees. I Love It.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia karwinskii
Common name: Karwinskis sageDescription: An upright shrub with rough leaves and spikes of two lipped scarlett flowers. Prune regularly.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia leucantha - Midnight
Common name: Mexican bush sage - MidnightDescription: A clump forming exotic perennial with soft green lanceolate leaves and lovely purple flowers from spring to autumn.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia macrophylla
Common name: Purple leafed salviaDescription: An upright perennial with large furry purple backed leaves and clusters of airy brilliant blue flowers. Gorgeous.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia macrophylla - Peru blue
Common name: Sage - Peru blueDescription: A trailing exotic perennial with woolly heart shaped leaves.
Spikes of gorgeous true blue flowers with a lime calyx.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia miniata
Common name: Belize sageDescription: A rare well shaped gorgeous exotic perennial with glossy smooth bright green leaves. Luminous reddish orange flowers. Moist. Attracts birds and butterflies. Flowering non-stop in the shade[View all characteristics]
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Salvia oxyphora
Common name: Bolivian hummingbird sageDescription: Rare perennial with large spade shaped textured veined leaves. Spikes of furry coral red from summer to autumn. Often difficult to grow.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia roscida
Common name: Description: Gorgeous new bushy salvia with heart shaped dark green creased leaves. Spikes of blue flowers above the foliage. Aut - sum. Good for a hedge, screen or specimen plants[View all characteristics]
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Salvia x microphylla - Cerro potosi
Common name: Description: Shrubby upright perennial with W fragrant oval shaped medium green leaves and tubular electric pink flowers. Attracts bees.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia x microphylla - Hotlips
Common name: Description: A much branched perennial with red and white lipped flowers, aromatic leaves which turn red in autumn. Attracts bees. Strong grower.[View all characteristics]
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