Salvia guaranitica "Black and Blue" Medicinal eight-to-twelve-foot habit

eight-to-twelve-foot habit

few native perennials give so much for so little fuss

Salix tristis is a dwarf

'Kleim's Hardy' suits the front of a border

wet soil above all

Salvia guaranitica "Black and Blue" Medicinal eight-to-twelve-foot habitSalvia guaranitica 'Black and Blue' is a big, vigorous perennial sage grown for one of the truest blues in the garden, a deep gentian to cobalt held in near black calyces that give the selection its name. Through the warm months, tall spikes rise above soft, hairy, deep green leaves and open in a long, generous run, and few hardy perennials offer a blue this saturated for so long a season. The species is a South American plant, native to Brazil,