PlantFiles Pictures: Blue Anise Sage, Brazilian Sage 'Costa Rica Blue' (Salvia guaranitica), 1 by salvia_lover

salvia_lover wrote:
Gary,

I didn't get any pic from you and yours isn't on the plant files yet. So I can't compare. But I do know that the colors on my plant this year are different....more brilliant....than what I had on the same plant last year. Perhaps different light conditions, colder season, I dunno.... In any case, in the summer the colors were more ... muted, I guess. Compare the above pic taken 1 month ago, to this pic taken in June...same plant, same digital camera, same settings. The earlier flowers had definitely lavender colored calyxes. But the ones from the pic taken a month ago have pink calyxes. I took a pic of some unopened calyxes about a week ago and they all look somewhere in between the two. Not quite the definite lavender, but not pink either......more lavender than pink though. When the flowers open, I'll take another pic and see what they look like.

-Julie