African Sage
Salvia aurea syn. S. africana 'Lutea'
A shrubby perennial from South Africa with pleasantly aromatic grey-green leaves and flowers of a most unusual shade of terracotta arranged in whorls above each stem. The dusky lime-green and maroon calyces persist for a long time. Very drought resistant, and hardy. 1.2m.
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African Sky
A recent natural hybrid reputedly found in the Auckland Botanic Gardens and originating from two South African species S. chamelaeagnea and S. scabra. Not surprisingly this is a particularly drought hardy shrub,. It grows to a metre high and is extremely long flowering. The foliage is mid green, quite stiff, smallish and neat. The flowers, born on long spikes, are a clear blue. It requires a bright sunny position. (Not to be confused with S. uliginosa which has recently been sold under this name.
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Anise Sage or Brazilian Blue Sage
S. guaranitica syn. S. ambigens
One of the loveliest species, drought resistant and hardy due to the formation of underground tubers. It will form a good sized clump to 1.0 m tall, with exquisite large rich blue flowers, the colour of stained glass. The foliage is lightly scented of sweet anise.
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Anthony Parker
S. rutilans x S. leucantha
Originating from romantic South Carolina in 1994, this is a superb salvia with a compact growth habit to one metre with many stems springing from the base of the plant and silver-grey foliage that is a perfect foil for the spectacular long dense spikes of darkest purple velvety flowers.
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Azure Sage or Pitcher Sage or Texas Blue Sage
S. azurea var. grandiflora
A great attractor of humming birds in its native American South West, in Australia this sage is loved by honeyeaters and butterflies for its supplies of nectar. It is drought resistant once established (the roots can go down two or more metres), forming a bush composed of many slender stems, around one metre high and wide with long dense spikes of clear soft azure blue wide lipped flowers. The leave are narrow and grey green. It is unusually hardy and makes a lovely display in late summer and autumn. Named for the U.S. Army surgeon/botanist Dr Zina Pitcher.
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Belize Sage
S. miniata
From Belize in South America, this is a spectacular variety, fast growing to 70-80cm with shiny dark foliage suffused with maroon and very large intensely brilliant deep red flowers that glow against the foliage. Rare and utterly stunning.
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Bethel Sage or Roseleaf Sage
S. involucrata 'Bethellii'
One of the most charming of all salvias with slightly scented rose pink flowers in large dense spectacular spikes protected by matching rose pink bracts. It forms a graceful shrub to 1.2-1.5m, flowering with delightful abandon in spring to autumn.
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Black and Blue Guarani Sage
S. guaranitica cv.
Stand back to let the honey eaters through! How they love this gorgeous dramatic salvia with its incredibly long flower spikes of very large intensely cobalt blue tubular flowers with contrasting ebony black calyces and flowering stems. It blooms from spring until the very end of autumn, reaches around 1.5 m, and is moderately cold hardy.
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Black Knight
S. splendens var. atrosanguinea.
A splendid foil for deep crimson roses and silvery shrubs, this extraordinary salvia flowers most of the year with abundant spikes of large, darkest purple flowers. It forms an upright shrub to 1.2-1.4 m and has good cold resistance. An old and increasingly rare variety that always draws admirers in our nursery.
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Buchanan's Sage or Velvet Sage
S. buchanii
Thought to have originated from Mexico, this is one of the most stunningly beautiful of all sages with small shiny oval rich green leaves and spikes of large, velvety, vibrant cerise to hot pink flowers. Low growing to around 50 cm and with good cold hardiness.
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Canary Island Sage
Salvia canariensis
Truly outstanding, this rare hardy sage can reach two metres in height, sending up several white furred stems from the base, with long arrow shaped leaves completely felted in silver-grey. The superb long plumed inflorescences have showy purple-red calyces and lilac-pink flowers.
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Christine Yeo
This hybrid between S. microphylla and S. chamaedryoides was discovered in the garden of the U.K. National Collection holder in Devon and was named for her. The bush reaches around 75 cm, small leafed olive green foliage and spikes of rich violet purple flowers. NEW.
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Clary Sage
S. sclarea
Fields of this glorious sage are grown in the mountain of Provence. The grey leaves have a pebbled texture, the huge very long lasting spectacular flowering heads are pure blossom pink. Our strain is from Provence, grown for the perfumery industry, and its leaves yield a wonderful muscatel scented oil.
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Forsythia Sage
S. madrensis
A very handsome Costa Rican perennial forming a large rosette of leave up to a metre across, each year sending up huge flowering stems to 1.5 to 1.8 m. The autumn blooming is truly sensational with large, buttery-yellow flowers in huge plumes. It flowers from late autumn into early winter when the flowering stalks die down, attracting endless honey eaters and butterflies in our gardens. The flowers are sticky with aromatic oils making spectacular additions to autumnal arrangements. We originally raised our form from seed gathered in the wild and it appears to be particularly spectacular compared with other forms we have seen. Rare.
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Fruit Salad Sage
S. dorisiana
A soft-textured large-leafed sage from Honduras. It grows to around 1.0 m, and the large soft foliage releases the most astonishing true, strong and delicious fragrance of fruit salad at the slightest touch. It produces abundant very large showy heads of vibrant mid-pink large flowers. Rare. It gently suckers (never becoming a problem for us even with rich basalt soil) to form a clump. We love to plant it beside garden seats and watch the delight and surprise of those who brush against it. It is tolerant of light shade but prefers sun. Drought resistant once established.
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Fuchsia Sage
S.iodantha
Very well named, this taller salvia bears large, dense, nodding bunches of luscious mulberry red small flowers reminiscent of the Tree Fuchsia. A truly spectacular shrub in late autumn and winter, and well suited to coastal gardens. It is fairly frost sensitive. Rare.
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Golden Delicious
S. rutilans
This beautiful variety is a variety of Pineapple Sage but differs in having the purest golden foliage throughout the year. The leaves retain the exact same delicious ripe pineapple fragrance of the species as well as the elegant dark red wands of flowers The bush is smaller and neater than Pineapple Sage.
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Graham's Sage
S. grahamii
A charming bushy salvia which has masses of airy spikes of deep crimson flowers. Reminiscent of dancing ladies' in the shape of the flowers with a wide frilled lower lip.
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Grapefruit Sage
S. gesneriflora
A truly magnificent sage, a shrub to 1.2 m with long graceful dense spikes of large, vivid red flowers. In our selected form gathered in Mexico, the leaves have the strong fruity fragrance of grapefruit .The flowers are very attractive to our native honey eater birds, and are filled with nectar. Rare.
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Honey Melon Sage
S. rutilans cv.
Related to Pineapple Sage, but smaller in all respects, this variety has smooth lime green leaves that are intensely scented of honeydew melon. The brilliant red flowers on long elegant spikes are fillled with nectar and are exceedingly attractive to honey eaters and butterflies. this sage often flowers from late spring through to the following midwinter. While it has moderate frost tolerance, a very cold snap may cut it back, in which case leave pruning off the top until spring.
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Hot Lips
Salvia microphylla cv.
A very striking bush salvia to around 90 cm released by the Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco in 2002. It originated in the beautiful ancient highland city of Oaxaca ( pronounced wa-ha-ka) in southern Mexico. It smothers from spring to autumn in bicolour flowers that are ice white, each variably but precisely tipped with bright cherry red. It is very heat resistant and has been shown to have moderate cold resistance. Expect some flowers to be all white or all red. This is not evidence of reversion. It likes full sun and good drainage, and is drought tolerant. NEW.
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Huntington Red
Salvia microphylla cv.
Quite a different form of the Little Leafed Sage to the above, forming a slightly prostrate, neat, small leafed shrub to around 90 cm with prolific spikes of glowing rich red flowers with a much enlarged lower petal resembling an apron. It flowers almost year round for us, making an excellent garden shrub with very good drought and cold resistance once established. The foliage has a light blackcurrant scent when crushed. It originated from the famous Los Angeles gardens of the same name.
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Indigo Woodland Sage
S. forskaoliei
This is a beautiful cold hardy variety that forms a large rosette of triangular green leaves from which emerge tall 80 cm spikes of striking, large, two colour blue and white flowers. It is a native of the Black Sea coast of Turkey to Russia, and is a wonderful attractor of butterflies and honey eaters.
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Joan Roseleaf Sage
S. involucrata cv.
This is a sensational variety of the Roseleaf Sage S. involucrata, with spikes of large-lipped flowers in a deep rich pink from mid-summer to late autumn. NEW.
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Kathe Salvia flocculosa
Originating from Equador where it grows in the cooler highlands. It can reach 1.5 m in the subtropics but is likely to grow shorter. It has small neat silvered green foliage and very pretty dense spikes of small light blue flowers. A charmer. For full sun to partial shade and a well drained soil.
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La Luna
Salvia x jamensis cv.
Also known as Moonlight, this charming salvia variety has flowers in the rare shade of creamy yellow to champagne. It forms a small shrubby perennial to 60 cn, and is extremely drought tolerant. The prolific spikes of wide lipped flowers appear from late spring to late autumn.
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Lara
Salvia greggii
One of the prettiest of all the salvias and easily accommodated in the smallest garden provided it is given full sunshine and good drainage. It forms a particularly neat shrub to 70—80 cm for us, with tiny, shiny green leaves. The flowers are prolific, produced over many months, and are charming, with a wide 'skirt' in two shades of pink. We prune ours in early spring. 'Lara' is drought and cold resistant, and is very tolerant of coastal humidity. It was bred by Sue Templeton in NSW and has since traveled far and wide.
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Lime Calyx Salvia mexicana
This is a taller growing variety averaging 1.5 m although it dies down each winter. It blooms for a long period producing profuse large spikes of rich purple-blue lipped flowers each held within a bright lime calyx which persists long after the flowers fall, providing a second show. For full sun or partial shade.
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Los Lirios
This natural hybrid of Salvia greggii was discovered near the town of Los Lirios in Mexico and was subsequently awarded the coveted Award of Garden Merit by The Royal Horticultural Society in the UK. It forms the neatest of rounded shrubs to about 90 cm with particularly neat small foliage. The shell pink flowers are of the 'dancing ladies' type with a prominent 'apron' and are born on short spikes.
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Lyrebird Sage or Lyre-leaved Sage
S. lyrata
The leaves of this species are handsome, tinted with rich purple and clefted like a lyrebird's tail. the spikes of flowers are an attractive blue-purple. The North American Indians used the roots for sores, the tea for colds, coughs and nervous conditions.
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Marsh or Bog Sage
S. uligonosa
One of the most stunning of a genus that is studded with beauties. Despite the name it grows perfectly in a quite dry position for us. The spires of flowers reach a metre in height and the lipped flowers are the most exquisite azure blue. The plant is a haze of blue for months at a time. Glorious. A delight for butterflies.
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Megan's Magic
As with the excellent 'Anthony Parker', of which 'Megan's Magic' is believed to be the offspring, this salvia is delightful planted in combination with heritage and David Austin roses, in perennial borders, and In fact anywhere you might otherwise plant a larger lavender. The tall flower spikes are borne in abundance and the individual flowers are ice white contrasting dramatically with the rich royal purple calyces. The foliage is aromatic and the plant is a compact grower to 80cm or more. Its many virtues include very good drought resistance and frost hardiness. It flowers from spring to autumn. 'Megan's Magic' was discovered by Robin Powell in South Australia.
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Merleau Blue
Salvia x superba
This perennial salvia is compact and clump forming so that it is ideal for planting among perennials. It produces prolific flowering spikes held well above the foliage in the manner of lavender. The spikes are densely arrayed with rich purple-blue flowers.
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Mexican Blue Sage
S. mexicana Major
A large bush to 1.4 m with dark green lush foliage and masses of tall 30cm spikes of superb, large, glowing gentian blue flowers. After the flowers fall they leave behind long lasting and spectacular spikes of clear lime green calyces perfect for floral artists. Our form was gathered in Mexico. Rare.
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Mulberry Jam Roseleaf Sage
S. involucrata cv.
This richly coloured salvia variety is smaller than the species and forms a neat rounded bush to 1.2 m ( 4 feet) that flowers from the beginning of summer into late autumn or even winter for us. The long spikes of large tubular flowers are a vivid pink opening from dusky magenta buds, and the calyces are deep purple, attracting masses of honey eaters in our garden. We love the combination of this salvia with the autumn flowering rich crimson red perennial asters 'Crimson Glory' and 'Sir Winston Churchill' and the beautiful Calico Aster 'Prince'.
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Omaha Gold
This is a golden suffused foliaged form of the beautiful 'Costa Rican Blue' salvia, The golden colouration is more obvious in the cooler months of the year. The large, sumptuously rich blue flowers borne in long spikes are set off to perfection by the jet black calyces. It flowers from autumn through to spring. It makes a tall handsome bush to 1.5 m and takes full sun to half shade.
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Phyllis Fancy
What a stunning and dramatic new salvia! Thought to be a natural hybrid between the Purple Velvet Sage and S. chiapensis, this taller salvia flowers its heart out from late summer to late autumn, covering in 30 cm long airy spikes of white flowers faintly suffused with lavender each subtended by bicolour light purple and green calyces and purple bracts. 'Phyllis Fancy' arose in the Santa Cruz Arboretum of the University of California and is a great attractor of honey eaters.
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Pineapple Sage
S. rutilans (syn. S. elegans)
Famous for the intense ripe pineapple fragrance of its leaves, this sage forms a soft-leafed shrub to 1.2m or more with long elegant spikes of ornamental vivid red flowers in autumn. The leaves are delicious in tea , finely chopped in fruit salad, or tucked into long summer drinks, and the nectar filled flowers are feasted on by honey eaters. It is quite hardy.
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Pink Blush
Salvia microphylla
This splendid smaller bushy salvia has been given the coveted Award of Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society. From late spring through to autumn it produces a profusion of quite long flower spikes arrayed with charming 'dancing ladies' type blossoms in a clear rich pink. The small neat mid-green foliage is aromatic. It will take hot weather very well and is drought tolerant. It needs a sunny well-drained position.
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Plum
S. guaranitica cv.
This variety has very striking richly plum coloured inflorescences. NEW
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Pumpkin
S. greggii
Despite the name, the very pretty flowers with their wide aprons are cream lightly suffused with the softest apricot, quite the opposite of the Halloween pumpkin orange one might imagine! Like all S. greggii forms it has the neatest of small foliage and is both drought and frost tolerant and performs perfectly in hot and humid districts if given full sun and good drainage. Its endless repeats of full flower spray s, its ease of growing, and its well behaved neat bush form to around 90 cm high make it an excellent garden or container plant.
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Purple Velvet Sage
S. leucantha
One of the finest salvias with a neat habit to 90 cm, pleasantly aromatic, long , dark green leaves felted white beneath, and abundant, very long, dense spikes of velvety dark purple flowers, often mistaken for lavender. Both forms have excellent cold resistance.
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Regal Sage
A magnificent sage to around 90 cm tall with very showy, extremely long and elegant spikes of rich velvety blue- purple. Rare.
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S. fallax
A taller growing species to 1.5m for the back of a border, with large spikes of heavenly blue flowers.
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S. oorrugata
An unusual and rarer species first discovered in 1988. It forms a spreading bush, with attractive lance shaped neat foliage that is shiny and neatly pebbled, creating textural interest in the garden. Young foliage is covered beneath with dense copper coloured downy hair which turns grey with age. Originating from the Andes and distributed from Peru to Columbia, the showy racemes of flowers are a beautiful rich blue, while the calyces are violet. Its distinctive upright habit and good hardiness make it an excellent addition to the garden.
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Salvia chamelaeagnea
This beautiful South African species sends up metre long stems with neat, lime green, finely scalloped, aromatic small leaves, and large, airy, branched inflorescences of beautiful flowers the colour of newly washed spring skies,and marked with cream. It has considerable drought resistance but needs winter protection in cold areas.
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Salvia scabra
Originating from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, this species grows to around 35 cm with many elegant branched spikes of long tubed flowers in a lovely shade of lilac pink to lavender blue, emerging from a rosette of irregularly toothed leaves. It is a really tough little plant, with good cold resistance, yet unlike some South African species is happy in humid warm coastal climates.
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Salvia semiatrata
An exquisitely beautiful salvia making a low mounding and spreading shrub with very attractive small, pebble textured, saggitate leaves. But it is the flowers that are so stunning, being large and electric blue with a jet black lip and golden stamens, each flower cupped by a mulberry coloured calyx. Rare in Australian gardens but popular in French gardens for over sixty years.
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Salvia x jamensis 'Los Lirios'
This natural hybrid of Salvia greggii was discovered near the town of Los Lirios in Mexico and was subsequently awarded the coveted Award of Garden Merit by The Royal Horticultural Society in the UK. It forms the neatest of rounded shrubs to about 90 cm with particularly neat small foliage. The shell pink flowers are of the 'dancing ladies' type with a prominent 'apron' and are born on short spikes. Excellent in all respects
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Silke's Dream
This recent hybrid salvia arose in Texas, and is reputed to have come from a cross between S. microphylla and S. darcyii. It resembles S. microphylla in form, with its neat small foliage and formation of a clump to 90 cm wide. It flowers from earliest summer ending in a bonfire of brilliant rich orange-red 'dancing ladies' type flowers arranged on 45 cm spikes. Stand back! The honey eaters simply adore it. Like many things Texan, this is a very sturdy, easy going and sun loving plant, and is on its way to become a classic of the hot dry summer garden.
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Tequila Blue Salvia guaranitica
If you love intensely blue flowers then this is a variety you will love. It forms an upright gently suckering clump which like all varieties of this species forms underground tubers which assist it in overwintering in colder climates. In very cold winter districts, many gardeners lift a clump, cut it back, and replant it in spring. when it quickly and luxuriantly grows away. In less freezing conditions leave the plant in the ground. It will die down in winter and re-emerge in spring. The bush is well clothed in bright green heart-shaped leaves. During late spring, through summer, and into autumn the plant produces dramatic long dense spikes of richest deep blue large tubular flowers.
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Tequila Sage
S. gesnerifolia cv.
This extraordinary and beautiful sage has scented foliage with abundant, dramatic, long, dense spikes of large Chinese lacquer red flowers each with a black calyx. When the sun shines through the flowers they are breathtaking. Even after the flowers fall, the calyces glow dramatically in late afternoon light. It makes an upright, well clothed, and very dependable shrub to 1.5 m. Rare.
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Texas Sage
S. coccinea
A remarkable performer even under the driest conditions forming a soft mounded shrub with many spikes of clear bright cherry red large flowers orne over many months. Tolerates dry shade!
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Timboon
Salvia involucrata cv.
This salvia forms a handsome upright growing shrub with foliage which is suffused with crimson during the cooler months and striking long dense spikes of large rich carmine flowers with dark crimson calyces.
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Van Houttii or Maroon Sageor Van Houtt's Brazilian Sage
S. vanhoutii
A spectacular shrub to a metre or more, covering for most of the year (including winter in milder climates) in long dense spikes of large velvety deep wine red to deep maroon flowers, each cupped by a deep red calyx. Drought resistant and stunning, with rasonable frost resistance. It is not fr gardens with cold winters.
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Waverley
One of the loveliest of all sages, and the bees and native honey eaters agree. It forms a neat many stemmed shrub to around 1m tall, bearing prolific long spikes of palest lavender and white flowers making a wonderful garden display.
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White Flowered Velvet Sage or Mexican Bush Sage
Unlike Purple Velvet Sage (see above), this form has ice white flowers faintly suffused with lavender, comtrasting with the velvety purple calyces.This is the form most commonly seen in Californian gardens.
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White Texas Sage
Salvia coccinea 'Alba'
One of the coolest looking and best performing plants in long dry summers with its fresh mint green foliage and numerous tall dense spikes of large ice white flowers.
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