Salvia Species, Blue Oak Sage, Electric Blue Sage, Germander Sage

I had two of them growing in part shade and they both developed a sickly weeping habit. I have since chopped them back and moved them to ...Read Morefull sun and they look much perkier.

lost alll of these i planted to the first frost of the season, so dont see how they can be hardy to zone 7. (i am in 9a) it is a lovely ...Read Moreplant and hopefully it will come back next year

I have grown this plant successfully in a raised bed. It did not grow well in the ground. I only water it when it is bone-dry, and it flo...Read Morewers more profusely when watered every now and then. It overwintered well in that raised bed, and wintersows easily.
This plant is a little fussy but once you get it in the right spot, it shines. The blue flowers are gorgeous.

The color of the flower petals is just beautiful anyway, but in the light of the evening sun, or next to pinks and other blues in a vase,...Read More it's dazzling!

This is one of those plants that is a breeze to propagate from cuttings. All of ours come from older stems that had been accidentally broken off the parent and then stuck directly into the soil (next to newer plants that were still being watered regularly). Within a couple of weeks, all of the 'cutting' were producing scads of new leaves.

In our zone 10W/SS 24 garden, they now get watered once a week when it's very hot (high 90's) in the summer and once or twice a month when it's not raining. They've never been fertilized, and are growing in clay-loam with some extra grit for better winter drainage.

I've had this in my "meadow garden" for a couple of years. The foliage on this plant is a standout backdrop for other plants, and when i...Read Moret blooms (for me quite early in the spring) it's just gorgeous. The downside is it spreads via underground runners, and I have to keep it under control. It can get really woody, and I've learned the hard way to prune it severely and dig out around the main plant to keep it from taking over the whole area.

I simply love this plant. Its electric-blue flowers bloom from mid Spring until late Fall for me, with a good trimming in mid Summer. I...Read Moret has wonderful sage smell and the blue-gray foliage makes a wonderful contrast.

This sage is water thrifty (xeric) and will die if even moderately over-watered. The topology of my garden caused one to receive too much water and it has since died.

This is not a cold-hardy sage. I live in Albuquerque, NM (Zone 7a), and I've lost two of six Germander Sages over various winters, so I wouldn't try planting in any colder climates.

Easy to grow, attractive, casual sage that does well in the coastal areas of California. Needs little to no summer water but doesn't min...Read Mored a little water once or twice a month. In the LA area this Salvia seems to bloom twice a year. A perfuse bloom in the spring followed by a secondary bloom in the September to October time frame. Attractive and easy.

I am a sucker for shrubby salvia, and although my planting is still quite young, I think that I am going to like this one even better tha...Read Moren its cousin, Autumn Sage. I know this plant as Mexican Blue or Chihuahuan Sage. It has silver leaves and electric blue flowers, and can be used either as a perennial or a small shrub. It lacks the polish of a highly cultivated plant, but looks beautiful in casual xeric settings. I prefer to deadhead shrubby salvias because I don't like the twiggy look of the exhausted flower stems. I have also seen Autumn Sage underplanted with Side-oats grama grass working very effectively to camouflage the twigs.