I am amazed at how the annual flower industry keeps creating more and more cultivars. The first Mealycup Sage cultivars that I had seen were the 'Blue Victoria' and the 'White Victoria' that are still good and still sold at many garden centers, though I don't think I have ever seen any kind of Mealycup Sage sold by Home Depot and some other big box stores, which do not offer as big a selection of plants as older, conventional, regular nurseries. This 'Deep Ocean' is one of about 10 new cultivars that have come out recently. This Sallyfun series has plants of a good compact habit that bear a good amount of flowers. They range from dark purple to dark blue-purple to light purplish-blue to white to bicolor purple-blue & white. The plants usually grow 24 to 30 inches high and have bigger leaves. Deep Ocean is dark purple-blue, though my plants don't look as dark as the pictures. I bought mine at an old conventional nursery.

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