Salvia koyamae Bob McCartney more tolerant of chalk and

more tolerant of chalk and drought

and increased only by dividing the short creeping rhizome

leatherwood and burnwood bark among them

the shrub shrugs off heat

dark green leaves with a slightly glaucous underside that catch light differently depending on how you stand relative to them

Salvia koyamae Bob McCartney more tolerant of chalk andHere is a salvia that wants what salvias are not supposed to want. Most of the genus comes from sunbaked Mediterranean hillsides, dry Mexican mountains, and dusty California chaparral, so that the very word Salvia is shorthand for full sun, gravelly soil, and a watering regime closer to neglect than care. Salvia koyamae, endemic to the cool wooded slopes of Honshu in Japan, breaks every rule, asking instead for shade, moist humus rich woodland duff,