SALVIA microphylla 'Cerro Potosi'
Medium
Sun
Pink
Well drained soil
Summer
Autumn
RHS Award of Garden Merit
Pollinator friendly
100% Peat Free
Description
Salvia microphylla 'Cerro Potosí'
Height x Spread: 60cm x 60cm
Ever so dainty, with vibrant magenta pink flowers held over neat scented light green foliage, this shrubby evergreen Salvia flowers its socks off from midsummer into late autumn.
Native to Mexico, it is tough and once established can tolerate periods of little or no watering in a fairly fertile, free draining soil in full sun. Plant it to draw the eye at the front of a border, perhaps combined with Agastache 'Blue Boa', Nepeta grandiflora 'Dawn to Dusk' and Scabiosa africana 'Jocelyn' for a striking long flowering display. Perfect too for a container plant on a hot sunny terrace or by the sea as it can cope with salt air. Being frost hardy, keeping it in a pot makes it easy to bring under cover during hard winters. Bees and butterflies love it.
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SCABIOSA africana 'Jocelyn'
Large, pale lilac-pink scabious flowers like ruffled pincushions, sway on the ends of slender stems above clumps of finely cut soft green foliage.Available for Mail Order from April - August
ARTEMISIA schmidtiana 'Nana'
This low growing form of Artemisia has wonderfully tactile, frilly silver foliage that is semi-evergreen.
NEPETA grandiflora 'Dawn to Dusk'
The grandiflora Nepetas have an erect and upright habit not requiring any staking. This form has pale pink flowers that contrast well with their dark flower stems.
AGASTACHE 'Blue Boa' PBR
Bees and butterflies just cannot resist the nectar rich deep violet blue blooms of 'Blue Boa'. They flock to its dense flower spikes that appear from mid summer deep into autumn, only to be stopped..