Salvia Species, Brandegee's Sage, Island Black Sage, Santa Rosa Island Sage

Santa Rosa Island Sage has kind of a funny growth habit when compared to its close cousins Purple Sage and Black Sage. Unless tipped on ...Read Morea constant basis, the plant seems to prefer to grow in tendril-like shapes rather than a mounding shrub. However, it does not appear to be scandent, as my mother plant mostly ignores the Laurel Sumac sapling growing with it.

Mine blooms lavender for a month or so, starting anywhere from January to April. This probably depends on light exposure, since its kids, started from cuttings, are spread around my garden and bloom at different times.

I've had this for a couple years now and it is blooming for the first time this spring. Flowers are small and a very light blue. The fo...Read Moreliage does have a nice scent and the leaves are an attractive shiny green with white undersides.

Begins flowering here in January/February, so should probably be pruned in spring or summer after bloom.

Somewhat prone to what I assume are the same spider mites that decimate my culinary sage and many other members of the lamiaceae family every year.

Species is sometimes (mis-)spelled brandegei Very similar to Salvia mellifera.