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Salvia semiatrata
Salvia Semiatrata (Pine Mountain Sage)Botanical Name: Salvia semiatrata is a tall growing perennial salvia reaching 1.8 meters by 90 cm wide in the ideal, native environment. In cultivation, this well branched and shrubby sage is often limited to 1 meter. The 2.5cm long leaves are a bright, grass like green ranging to yellow-green, creating a very showy appearance. The triangle, or deltoid leaves, are held opposite, but grow in small clusters. The surface of the leaves is rugose and the underside covered in many small hairs, giving a cream appearance and highlighting the veins.The inflores...
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Salvia sinaloensis
Salvia sinaloensis (Sinaloan Blue Sage)Botanical Name: Salvia sinaloensis Salvia sinaloensis is a low growing plant with a prostrate habit, reaching about 30cm high with a 60cm spread. The spear, or lance shaped leaves are pointed at both ends. They are an attractive deep green with purple tones throughout when the plant is grown in the sun. The 2 cm electric blue flowers are held on an upright stalk extending about 10cm above the leaves. The flowers have been descried as being a true blue and the bluest of all salvias. The rich, bright blue flower has white spots or lines on the lower lip...
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Salvia somalensis
Salvia SomalensisBotanical Name: Salvia somalensis Salvia somalensis is a tall, perennial shrub growing from 1.2 to 1.5 meters, with a spread of 90cm to 1.5m. It has many stems and can be ‘rangy’, but the leaves offer a graceful backdrop to any garden border. The long, lime green leaves have a clear central vein and are an oblong shape with a rugose, or textured appearance. They are about 10cm long, 2.5 cm wide and arch or curl back gracefully, giving the whole plant a characteristic graceful appearance. When crushed the leaves give off a sticky residue and a menthol fragrance.The powder or...
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Salvia splendens 'Ellie'
Salvia ‘Ellie’Botanical Name: Salvia splendens 'Ellie' Salvia ‘Ellie’ is a tall upright perennial that grows from 1 to 2 meters high. The ovate, light green leaves are quite large, deeply veined and have a pebble like texture and serrated edges. They look a little like the leaves of old fashioned roses. The flowers are coral pink-red and have a long tubular section and small lip at the end. The bracts are slightly darker, with a brown red tone that seems to deepen as the flowers open. The flower, or corolla, is twice as long as the bracts.This salvia is one of the many cultivars available f...
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Salvia uliginosa 'Bog Sage'
Salvia uliginosa ‘Bog Sage’Botanical Name: Salvia uliginosa Salvia uliginosa is a large, herbaceous perennial that reaches 1 to 1.5 meters high and 50cm to 1 meter wide, although in ideal conditions it may grow larger. This salvia also has a spreading and clumping habit, due to its stoloniferous root system. The 2.5 cm long leaves are green-yellow, lance shaped, aromatic and slightly sticky. The plant has a branching structure and the height is extended by the slender, purple toned floral spikes. The indigo blue flowers are held in whorls, surrounded by small green bracts that darken to pur...
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Salvia wagneriana
Salvia wagneriana (Wagner's Sage)Botanical Name: Salvia wagneriana Salvia wageriana is a large sage, growing up to 1.8 meters high and wide in ideal conditions, but often reaches only 1 meter in cultivation. This tall plant is in the sub-shrub category, meaning it has both woody growth and soft, perennial herbaceous growth. The new leaves are bright green, felt like, and triangular in shape. The flower colour is variable, but they are usually either a bright, rich pink with dark pink calyces, or a lighter pink to cream with green to pink calyces. There is also a cultivar with white bracts...
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Salvia waverley
Salvia WaverleyBotanical Name: Salvia 'Waverly' Salvia Waverly is a fast growing, continual flowering plant of American origin. It reaches 1.2 meter high and a 1.4 meter spread on a medium sized, reasonably tidy bush. The grey-green leaves are deeply veined, elongated to a point and take on a leathery appearance. The stems extend up from the base and arch in a fountain like manner, before developing the long purple flower stalks. The flowers are white, with a mauve tinge and the calyces are a deep purple to pink.Waverly is generally described as a great all-rounder for the garden – easy to ...
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Salvia x westerae
Salvia X westeraeBotanical Name: Salvia X westerae Salvia x westerae is a woody based perennial from the Andes Mountain region, growing up to 1.2 meters high and wide under good conditions. It has a sprawling habit as it grows and in most gardens it may be smaller than this. The branches are erect and symmetrical when the plant is young, but sprawl when older. Structural plants, including other salvias, positioned nearby may provide a useful supportive framework. The dark green leaves are lance shaped and large, reaching up to 10 cm. The profuse and large tubular flowers are held on long in...
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Sambung Nyawa
.Sambung NyawaBotanical Name: Gynura procumbens Other names this plant goes by are Sambung nyawa ‘life extender’ , Daun Dewa, Akar Sebiak, Kelemai Merah, Bai Bing Ca. A fleshy perennial plant, growing to a height of approx. 80cm with yellow/orange thistle like flowers. The branches can be trimmed to make the plant bushy or you can stake the stems. The young leaves and shoots can be eaten fresh in salads or added to rice or noodle dishes. You can cook like spinach, sauté in butter or oil and a little garlic or add to soups or stews. Sambung has many medicinal uses including being useful ...
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Santolina Green
Santolina GreenBotanical Name: Santolina virens Santolina Green is an evergreen shrub with a compact, mounding growth habit reaching 30 cm high and up to 75 cm wide. The deep green leaves are narrow and pinnately divided, creating an impression of cypress pine foliage. They are highly aromatic and have a pungent menthol or pine like fragrance. The narrow leaves are held on small branching stems that become woody as the plant ages. The yellow flowers appear in summer and consist of small and button-like composite flower heads, held on slender stems from 10-25cm above the foliage.Santolina Gr...
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Santolina Grey
Santolina GreyBotanical Name: Santolina chamaecyparissus Santolina chamaecypraissus, or Santolina Grey, is a small, evergreen shrub growing from 10-50cm high by 50cm to 1 meter wide after 5-10 years. It is densely covered in narrow, entire or pinnate grey-green leaves that cover the stems or branches. These attractive and aromatic leaves create the appearance of a cross between lavender and the pine cypress foliage. At a distance the small branches look a little like fern fronds. When crushed the leaves have a pungent, but pleasant aroma. The yellow button-like flower heads appear on two y...
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Savory - Lemon Savory
Lemon SavoryBotanical Name: Satureja montana citriodora Lemon Savoury is a dwarf, woody shrub growing to approximately 30cm high. The small ‘thyme like’ leaves are highly aromatic with a lemon scent. The shape is ovate and the leaves are a glossy dark to mid green colour. The erect, unbranched stems may appear velvety in texture due to fine hairs, but this is not always the case. The rose pink flowers are 2 lipped with a tubular appearance. Flowering is in summer from December to March in Australia.Lemon Savoury grows in sub-tropical, tropical and temperate regions of the Northern Hemispher...
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