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 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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Indigenous: Salvia radula
Common name: Scrappy african sageDescription: Stunning upright indigenous shrub with furry and aromatic grey leaves. Panicles of white flowers all season.[View all characteristics]
R75.00 |
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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 bushy exotic perennial with rusty stems and maroon calyces.[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 - Mystic spires
Common name: Sage - Mystic spires blueDescription: A compact bushy exotic perennial with emerald green leaves and spikes of purple flowers all season. Cut flower. Plant en masse.[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]
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Salvia amarissa
Common name: Bitter Mexican sageDescription: A lax Mexican perennial with bright green deeply veined leaves. Lipped baby blue flowers[View all characteristics]
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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.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia eizi-matudae
Common name: Description: NEW very RARE exotic perennial with oval furry scalloped dull green foliage. Sprays of cerise flowers from sum - win. Attracts bees and butterflies.[View all characteristics]
R90.00 | This item is currently out of stock.
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Salvia gesneriiflora
Common name: Mexican salviaDescription: Multistemmed exotic subshrub.
Aromatic heart shaped leaves.
Tubular orange red flowers from winter - spring.
Birds[View all characteristics]
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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]
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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 - Bethelli
Common name: Rose leafed sageDescription: Sparsely branched exotic perennial.
Tapering notched red veined leaves.
Dark red flowers from summer - autumn[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]
R60.00 | This item is currently out of stock.
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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]
R75.00 |
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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]
R75.00 | This item is currently out of stock.
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Salvia macrophylla
Common name: Purple leafed salviaDescription: An upright perennial with large furry purple backed leaves and clusters of airy blue flowers.[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 mexicana - Limelight
Common name: Limelight salviaDescription: A multi-stemmedclump forming exotic perennial with blue green leaves and showy purple flowers with lime green bracts. Attracts birds, b/flies and bees.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia orthostachys
Common name: Straight spike sage Description: A new upright exotic perennial with interesting shaped leaves. Spikes of red flowers from sum - aut.[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 splendens - Van Houttei
Common name: Sage - van HoutteiDescription: A deceptively delicate looking exotic perennial with pointed toothed pale yellow-green leaves. It has long tubular bright red flowers all season. Lovely in a mixed border. Cut flower.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia staminea
Common name: Iranian sageDescription: New well shaped exotic shrub with dark green leaves. Dark bracts with white flowers in summer. Waterwise.[View all characteristics]
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Salvia x microphylla - Hotlips
Common name: Description: A much branched perennial with red and white lipped flowers, and aromatic leaves which turn red in autumn. Attracts bees. Strong grower.[View all characteristics]
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