Today's Salvias of the Day is Sage (Salvia 'Indigo Spires').

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Sage (Salvia 'Indigo Spires')

I've grown this plant for about 8 years now, and it remains one of my all-time favorites. Care-free, easy to root and share, cuttings grow to 2-3 feet in one season, blooms all summer. Bees and butterflies love it, and I totally agree with them.

@pbtxlady

It is a wonderful bee and butterfly salvia. Easy to grow and long blooming. It is not hardy for me, but gets big soon enough for my zone 6a growing season. Love it also. It is a staple in the garden every year.

I love this one as well, and have planted it again and again - because sadly it rarely makes it through our hot, wet summers! It should be perennial here, and last at least 3 years, but so far it's been an annual for me.

Maybe I can find a sunny spot under an overhang for it? Or try it in a big container that I can move under cover when it pours?

Beautiful and bountiful blooms on Indigo Spires but it's another one I missed buying in spring when the usual nursery changed hands.

dyzzypyxxy said:I love this one as well, and have planted it again and again - because sadly it rarely makes it through our hot, wet summers! It should be perennial here, and last at least 3 years, but so far it's been an annual for me.

Maybe I can find a sunny spot under an overhang for it? Or try it in a big container that I can move under cover when it pours?

@dyzzypyxxy

It can take partial shade. Plant it where it gets afternoon shade and if you don't have afternoon shade, then whatever shade you have during the day.

Sage (Salvia 'Indigo Spires')

A big container would be too heavy to move, wouldn't it?! Maybe plant something else in the big container - I've 2 Indigo Spires, along with Salvia Amistad in a large container tub this year and with a lot of the rain we've had earlier in the season, I think that with three plants sharing the tub, the Indigo Spires don't even know they've had a lot of water. Might work for you.

shown with liatris and Lady in Red salvia.

pirl said:Beautiful and bountiful blooms on Indigo Spires but it's another one I missed buying in spring when the usual nursery changed hands.

@pirl

You can still grow it......

I order mine early in the year at Select Seeds for April shipment. http://www.selectseeds.com/cgi...

@pbtxlady

Wonderful pic! It would make a great multi-plant photo!

This is one of those bulletproof plants for us. We have several of them all over the place and they never give us any trouble. Numerous beneficial insects are drawn to it and we just love the tall spikes of blooms. One of my top 5 salvias.

Thanks, Marilyn.

@dave May I ask what your top five salvias are?

Last time, it was getting shaded later in the afternoons by the lychee tree, but the sun in that location is really brutal. Maybe I just need to plant it closer together in the ground so they will drink up the sudden downpours. Our soil is very sandy and well-drained.

pirl said:Thanks, Marilyn.

@dave May I ask what your top five salvias are?

Great question!

dyzzypyxxy said:Last time, it was getting shaded later in the afternoons by the lychee tree, but the sun in that location is really brutal. Maybe I just need to plant it closer together in the ground so they will drink up the sudden downpours. Our soil is very sandy and well-drained.

That could work! Hope it does!

Well, if I can get them going now, they'll bloom through most of winter for me, and at least keep going until next summer. It IS sort of cooling off here now. Hm, they might look nice interplanted with nasturtiums . . .

I have this plant next to my greenhouse. I planted Purple Majesty and Black and Blue at the same time. Indigo Spires is slowly taking over. The bees and skippers love it.

You have Indigo Spires taking over Black and Blue???? Astounding. I love Black and Blue (and its cousin Argentine Skies) but they tend to get out of hand pretty fast.

@beclu727

A beautiful and great bee/butterfly salvia!