I used to think salvias were boring. I would only see pineapple sage in garden stores. They would bloom too late in the year for me and would not come back the next year. So I assumed they were a waste of time. The salvia that made me really interested was Anthony Parker. I was walking down a path in the South Carolina Botanical that I had not walked before and then BAM there it was. Big and deep indigo. And I was hooked.