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Salvia microphylla 'Ribambelle'
Salvia ‘Ribambelle’Botanical Name: Salvia microphylla 'Ribambelle' Salvia ‘Ribambelle’ is a small, compact rounded shrub that may reach 70cm high and 70 cm wide. This salvia has most unusual coloured blooms of salmon- coral pink, touched with white at the throat. They are held on a 20 cm long inflorescence over a continuous flowering period that is heaviest over summer and autumn. The green leaves are oval shaped, toothed and quite small. It is hardy to -10C in cold regions. The bracts have a touch of brown-orange at the tips and the buds are a deep pink-salmon just before the flower opens....
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Salvia microphylla 'Sweet Laura'
Salvia 'Sweet Laura'Botanical Name: Salvia microphylla ‘Sweet Laura’ Salvia microphylla ‘Sweet Laura’ is a small, shrubby perennial growing to about 40-50cm high and wide. The elliptical shaped leaves are mid green, with a slightly glossy appearance. They tend to roll in and have a clear central vein and a slightly serrated edge. The stems are green right to the top of the stem where the bracts start to blend from green to dark pinkish-brown. The flowers are two toned with the deeper pink hood providing a striking contrast against the dark bracts, before emerging completely. The lower lobes...
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Salvia miltiorrhiza 'Red Rooted Sage'
Salvia 'Red Rooted Sage'Botanical Name: Salvia miltiorrhiza 'Red Rooted Sage' Red Rooted Sage is a small shrub, growing from 30-60cm high with a similar spread. It is a deciduous perennial in cold regions and has branching stems with widely spaced leaves. The dark green foliage consists of simple, divided leaves with a pinnate structure and slightly crenate or mildly scalloped margins. The leaves sometimes have purple highlights. The whorls of flowers are blue-purple, covered in sticky hairs and have dark purple calyces. Floral spikes extend 30 cm above the foliage during spring and summer...
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Salvia muirii
Salvia muiriiSalvia muirii is an evergreen perennial, native of South Africa and is well suited to Australian conditions. First discovered in 1915, this plant is small in its natural environment and grows to about 30cm. However, it appears to grow larger in cultivation and may reach up to 1 meter. The plant itself can appear to be rather ‘twiggy’ with woody stems, particularly as the leaves are small and do not help to obscure the branches. The underground roots have the ability to recover and help the plant regenerate after fires, similar to many Australian plants.The very small leaves hav...
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Salvia officinalis 'Berggarten'
Salvia “Berggarten’Botanical Name: botanicalname Salvia ‘Berggarten’ is an evergreen sub shrub, with a size of approximately 60cm by 60cm. It has woody stems and a compact mounding growth habit. The silver toned foliage is considered to be among the finest of all the grey foliage plants. The leaves are a stunning rich, grey-blue with the angle of the leaves creating constantly changing depth, texture and hues of silver, white, and deep grey. Sometimes the leaves appear quite green, while other plants are very silver toned. New leaves are usually bright green, but age to the soft downy grey ...
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Salvia officinalis 'Icterina' 'Golden Sage'
Golden SageBotanical Name: Salvia officinalis 'Icterina' Golden Sage is a compact growing, evergreen sub-shrub, also called Variegated Golden Sage. It has a bushy growth habit, with its final height being somewhat dependent upon garden conditions. It can grow from 50cm to 1 meter with a similar width, taking 2-5 years to reach full size. Some writers have indicated it has a dwarf growth habit, but this may be in comparison to the very tall growth of some of the ornamental salvia varieties. Golden Sage has quite showy, two-lipped blue-purple flowers. They are quite large at 2 cm long and hel...
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Salvia officinalis 'Purpurascens' 'Purple Sage'
Purple SageBotanical Name: Salvia officinalis 'Purpurascens' Purple Sage is an aromatic, evergreen shrub growing from 50 cm to 1 meter in height, with a similar spread. The purple colouring is usually found on new growth leaves and stems. Older foliage takes on a grey – green colouring, with the oblong leaves growing from 3-6 cm long. The 2 cm flowers are a purple – blue colour, held in terminal racemes that appear in early summer to late spring.This colourful sage is a cultivar of the Common Sage and may be used in a similar manner. It does have the added advantage of being able to add ext...
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Salvia officinalis 'Tri-colour Sage'
Tricolor SageBotanical Name: Salvia officinalis 'Tricolor' Tricolour Sage is a spreading evergreen shrub with a compact, bushy growth habit. Over a period of 2-5 years the plant should grow to a final height of 50cm to 1 meter, with a similar width. The fragrant and wrinkled leaves are an oblong grey-green colour, variegated with cream and flushed with a red-purple blush on the youngest growth. It has light to deep blue, two lipped flowers in spring and early summer. The flowers are about 2 cm long and are held on short upright spikes.This sage is a variety of the Common Sage, which has man...
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Salvia oxyphora
Salvia OxyphoraBotanical Name: Salvia Oxyphora Salvia oxyphora is an herbaceous perennial with a tropical appearance, growing from 1 to 1.5 meters. The large, flowers are an attention grabbing cerise pink and appear in summer through to autumn. The inflorescence consists of terminal bracteate racemes that grow up to a 20cm long spike. The 3-4cm long corolla is red with fine hairs giving the fuzzy appearance.The attractive, glossy green leaves are lanceolate to ovate and are quite large at 7 to 22cm long, tapering to 3-7cm wide at the tips. The pointed leaves have obvious veins and when up c...
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Salvia pallida
Salvia PallidaBotanical Name: Salvia pallida is a tall and narrow plant from Argentina where it grows about 80 cm high by 1.2 meters wide, but the flowers stalks extend up to 1.5 meters. The green leaves are large and arch back gracefully from the multiple stems. They are very long, oval shaped with scalloped margins and end in a pointed tip. The flowers are powder blue with lavender calyxes held on very long flower spikes. The word ‘pallida’ means pale and the pale blue flowers are profuse from summer to autumn.The salvia family has over 900 members with an extensive history as culinary, ...
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Salvia puberula
Salvia puberulaBotanical Name: Salvia puberula Salvia puberula is a medium growing shrub reaching up to 1- 1.5 meter high by a similar width, although it may not reach this size in Australian gardens. It has lime green, heart shaped leaves that may be up to 10 cm long. The leaves and much of the stem and flowers are be covered in fine hairs. The winter flowers are held on top of a floral spike and are usually pink, although the tone may vary. They extend out at various angles looking much likely a large hairy pink spider.Salvia puberula has undergone several stages of taxonomic investigatio...
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Salvia radula
Salvia radulaBotanical Name: Salvia radula Salvia radula is an herbaceous perennial with a variable growth habit, depending on the climate zone. It may reach 1 meter by 1 meter, but is often smaller in regions not closely representing its natural habitat. The plant is well branched and has erect stems covered in narrowly ovate to lanceolate leaves. They are white and woolly underneath and mid-greyish green on the surface, which is covered in a ‘dotty’ texture. The stems and bracts are also green, with a delicate covering of hair. The foliage is aromatic and is a nice addition to the garden....
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Salvia rubiginosa
Salvia rubiginosaBotanical Name: Salvia rubiginosa Salvia rubiginosa is one of the smaller growing salvias reaching 1-1.5 meters high. It develops into a mound shape up to a meter wide with square stems supporting the tidy branches. The mid green leaves have a broad lance shape, with an almost bubble like deep texture. The 1.5cm flowers are a rich blue, surrounded by purple to rosy red calyces which provide a nice contrast. The floral clusters cover the whole plant. In some areas of the world this salvia is commonly called Rosy Bract Sage. It is a native to the southern coastal areas of Mex...
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Salvia sagittata x macrophylla
Salvia sagittata X macrophyllaBotanical Name: Salvia sagittata X macrophylla Salvia sagittata X macrophylla is a medium sized evergreen perennial that may reach up to 1 meter high and wide in warm regions. The height is extended when in flower by the tall floral spikes that stretch above the foliage. The branches are strong and wiry and the rich, green leaves are very large and arrow shaped. The plant has quite a lush tropical appearance, although the leaves still have the typical fuzz characteristic of many salvias. The 2 cm long tubular flowers are a rich iridescent cobalt blue and they h...
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Salvia sclarea 'Clary Sage'
Clary SageBotanical Name: Salvia sclarea Clary Sage is an herbaceous biennial or short lived perennial, growing to about 1 meter, although the range varies with different cultivars. The green-grey leaves are, quite simply, huge! They are 30cm long at the base and may be up to 50cm long as they move up the stems, and as wide as a hand span in some cases. The leaves are arranged in pairs around the hair covered, square brownish stems. They are oblong and heart shaped with a wrinkled, velvet like texture and toothed margins.The summer blooming flowers are held in bracts that range in colour fr...
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