Plant List


Salvia argentea

Common Name: Silver Sage
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: White
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:

Hairy, gray-green leaves. 3-4 foot flower stems with white blooms. Good for front of border.


Salvia chamaedryoides

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Common Name: Mexican Blue Sage
Bloom Season: Summer to Frost
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 24"
Description:

Finely textured, silver-green foliage, bright blue flowers summer to fall. Not zoned for the Panhandle, but has performed very well for three years.


Garden Notes: Plant in warm winter area. Spreads by rhizomes to make nice clump. Blooms all summer long.

Salvia coccinea

Common Name: Forest Fire
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:

Hummingbirds- Annual-Deadheading helps ensure long bloom season- Denser, more compact than Lady In Red.


Salvia coccinea

Common Name: Lady in Red
Bloom Season: Summer to Frost
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 12"
Description:

Hummingbirds- Annual-Deadheading helps ensure long bloom season- Taller, Lankier than Forest Fire.


Salvia farinacea

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Common Name: Evolution
Bloom Color: Violet/Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Description:

Intense violet-bluespikes in showy contrast over glossy green foliage. Thick spikes are densely packed over well branched plants.


Salvia farinacea

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Common Name: Victoria Blue
Bloom Season: Spring to Frost
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 14"
Description:

Deep blue flowers, long bloom season When deadheaded. Cut to new growth early spring. Long lived.


Salvia farinacea

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Common Name: Victoria White
Bloom Season: Spring to Frost
Bloom Color: White
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 18"
Mature Width: 14"
Description:

White flowers from spring to first frost.


Salvia greggii 'ESTHER'S RED'

Common Name: 'Esthers Red' Autumn Sage
Bloom Season: Spring to Fall
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:

Shrub, hummingbirds,aromatic foliage, ordinary soil, can be sheared to a hedge,long bloom season-no deadheading.


Salvia greggii 'FURMAN'S RED'

Common Name: Furman's Red Salvia
Bloom Season: Summer to Frost
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:

Crimson flowers produced in flushes through summer. Woody perennial. Best cut back some in spring.


Garden Notes: Cut back at least to new growth in spring. May need to remove older stalks to rejuvenate.

Salvia greggii 'HOTLIPS'

Common Name: 'Hot Lips' Autumn Sage
Bloom Season: Summer to Frost
Bloom Color: Red with White
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:

'Hot Lips' is shown as a zone 7-8 perennial. May not survive harshest winters, but it will provide summer long, showy blooms.


Garden Notes: Blooms may be white, deep red or a combination. Evidently depends on temperatures at the time blooms are setting.

Salvia guaranitica

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Common Name: Black and Blue
Bloom Season: Spring to Frost
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 40"
Mature Width: 36"
Description:

Very nice large sage. Deep blue flowers over a long period. Plant in warm location- we are on edge for freezing over winter.


Garden Notes: This salvia may like a little more care than some of the other salvias, but it is a very showy plant with very attractive foliage and large blue blooms

Salvia jurisicii

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Common Name: European Cutleaf Sage
Bloom Season: Summer to Fall
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 4"
Mature Width: 14"
Description:

Vigorous plants with ferny foliage. Upside down blue flowers.


Garden Notes: Plant out small.

Salvia leucanthum

Common Name: Mexican Bush Sage
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:

New plant in 2009. Nice, large purple bloom, strong fragrance.


Salvia napifolia

Common Name: Baby Blue
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 12"

Salvia officinalis

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Common Name: Sage
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 30"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:

Herb used for seasoning. Violet blooms attract small butterflies. Attractive plant. Gray-green leaves.


Salvia pachyphylla

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Common Name: Giant Flowered Purple Sage
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Purple
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 36"
Mature Width: 30"
Description:

Aromatic silver foliage. Needs good drainage. Woody perennial.


Salvia rhoemanica

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Common Name: Red Dwarf
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 12"
Description:

This is a new variety for 2010.


Salvia roemeriana

Common Name: Hot Trumpets 'Cedar Sage'
Bloom Season: Summer
Bloom Color: Red
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Mature Height: 8"
Mature Width: 10"
Description:

Red flowers, not showy, but constant when deadheaded. Nice foliage. Grow in part shade to mimic its natural habitat under cedars.


Salvia Ultraviolet PPAF

Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun Part-Shade

Scabiosa caucasica

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Common Name: Pincushion 'perfecta clear blue'
Bloom Season: Midsummer to frost
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 24"
Mature Width: 18"
Description:

Clear blue flowers, Hardy perennial for border or cut flower, deadheading ensures longer blooming. Classic blooms for butterflies.


Scabiosa columbaria

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Common Name: Pincushion 'nana'
Bloom Season: Midsummer to frost
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 10"
Description:

Nice compact plant, blooms nicely, good for feeding butterflies. Can deadhead occasionally to prolong bloom. Very hardy, dependable.


Schizachyrium scoparium

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Common Name: Little Bluestem
Water Needs: Little Water Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 30"
Description:

An important grass of the True Prairie. Blue green, turning to reddish brown in fall.


Schizachyrium scoparium 'The Blues'

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Common Name: Little Bluestem
Water Needs: Little Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Scrophularia macrantha

Common Name: Redbirds in a Tree
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Description:

HCG


Scutellaria baicalensis

Common Name: Baikal Skullcap
Bloom Season: All Summer
Bloom Color: Blue
Water Needs: Moderate Water

Ideal Sun Conditions: Full Sun

Mature Height: 10"
Description:

Flowers bloom on one side of stalk, upper lip dark blue, lower is sky blue. Lime loving, rock or wild garden.


Garden Notes: Nice blooms last year. Small, but they covered the plant.