Today's plant of the day for Salvias is Salvia (Salvia coerulea 'Purple & Bloom').

This plant can be found in our Plant Database at:
Salvia 'Purple & Bloom' .

Please join in, if you own this plant! We would love to know more!



Also, please consider adding a Plant Performance Report to the database! Thank you!

Salvia 'Purple & Bloom'

New from the Ball Horticultural Company, a Ball Flora Plant beauty.

https://www.ballfloraplant.com...

The name is wrong. The developer does not claim a species. It is properly Salvia 'Purple & Bloom'.

We are currently trialing this.

Kermit,

I edited the name to read Salvia 'Purple & Bloom' in the database.

Good to know you're trialing Purple & Bloom.

Does the market really need another 'amistad' clone?

That's what I've been thinking too Dan.

It is in no way an "Amisted clone". A very different plant habit. Larger flowers, glossy green leaves. With modern plant breeding techniques, we'll continue to see better and better - which is good.

Larger flowers than the Amistad flowers? They are pretty large themselves.

Here is a link to a video with a short, shaky shot of both 'Roman Red' and 'Purple & Bloom' around the 3 minute mark. Pretty! Cute involucres, too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I'm impressed with salvia 'purple & bloom' so far. It is loaded with beautiful bloom spikes and it has a nice, bushy form. The hummers are working it over every evening, too.