General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: |
Herb/Forb
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Life cycle: |
Perennial
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Sun Requirements: |
Full Sun
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Water Preferences: |
Mesic
Dry Mesic
Dry
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Minimum cold hardiness: |
Zone 2 -45.6 °C (-50 °F) to -42.8 °C (-45°F)
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Maximum recommended zone: |
Zone 8b
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Plant Height: |
2 feet |
Plant Spread: |
1-2 feet |
Leaves: |
Fragrant
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Flowers: |
Showy
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Flower Color: |
White
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Bloom Size: |
Under 1"
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Flower Time: |
Late spring or early summer
Summer
Other: Deadheading faded flower spikes ensures more flowering throughout the season.
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Underground structures: |
Taproot
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Uses: |
Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
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Wildlife Attractant: |
Bees
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
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Resistances: |
Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Drought tolerant
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Pollinators: |
Various insects
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- Schneehügel
- Snow Hill
- Snow Mound
Posted by
Jenn (Trenton, TX - Zone 8a) on Dec 2, 2011 6:39 PM concerning plant:
Salvia plants are a favorite of mine because they are both beautiful and garden workhorses. I have them planted in the garden bed that I fondly call The Front Walk of Burning Death. It's a west-facing garden bed where the blazing afternoon sun likes to burn most plants to a crisp, and the prairie winds finish off anything that the sun might have left alive. It took a lot of trial and error to find plants that can take this kind of abuse. Salvia wins hands down.
It doesn't mind the sun, the heat, the wind, the drought conditions, or the black gumbo clay in the soil. They continually reflush after I clip off the spent flower spikes, blooming throughout the summer, only giving up in the fall when cold temperatures arrive. What's more, they attract bees to your garden. For the first time after I planted the bed in with salvia, I had a bunch of native carpenter bees coming to visit regularly! These pollinators do so much good for garden beds. Salvia does such a grand job of attracting them that I now have plans to include them in a few backyard beds where most of my annual vegetables are grown.
Interplant this pretty white variety with some of the other color options available for a pretty show!
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