 Salvia canescens var. daghestanica $7.95
- flowering season: early summer
- height: foliage is 1 or 2 inches high; flowers to 8 - 10 inches
- Light requirements: sun
- Soil requirements: average, well drained
- Water requirments: average to low
- Growth habit: prostrate, growing into low clump
- How to propagate: dividing in early summer
- Leaf type: felty gray leaves
- Ways to use it: in a sunny rock garden; bordering pavement; as an edging for taller flowering plants
Salvia daghestanica likes a hot, sunny position in any well-drained soil. Grow it just like lavender -- it doesn't want to be wet at the roots or heavily watered. When planting, mixing in a ample helping of coarse grit and planting it on a slightly raised mound of soil to aid drainage should help it survive a wet winter. Another idea is to mulch it with two to three inches of sand when planting. A native to the Caucasus Mountains near the Black Sea. In early summer, the low, tight rosettes of textured foliage are very white and create a superb backdrop to the showy 8 to 10-inch tall spikes of large clear-blue flowers. Besides planting in a rock garden it can be used in the perennial border as an edging plant and as a companion around taller plants. USDA Zones 5 - 8. |
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