Salvia farinacea x longispicata 'Indigo Spires' 26/3 Restock Illicium verum

Illicium verum

but so heavy that the whole plant seems to smoke with fragrance while it lasts

Gardeners planting inkberry for those berries need at least one male in range

A member of the Lardizabalaceae

Set the tree where the ripe fruit can drop without staining a patio

Salvia farinacea x longispicata 'Indigo Spires' 26/3 Restock Illicium verumSalvia 'Indigo Spires' is a big, free flowering hybrid sage grown for the long, tapering wands of violet blue bloom it throws from early summer straight through to frost. Each spike packs small, rich violet flowers tightly in whorls above dark, near black calyces, and the spikes lengthen and curve as the season goes, so a settled clump reads as a haze of deep blue purple for months on end. Few perennials give so much color for so long a run. The plant