@Marilyn
Thanks! It has done well despite about 1/3 of it breaking off in June at main stem in storm with heavy rain and wind- AND I have moved it twice since first putting it in the ground! It has just kept thriving and still gotten so huge! The only reason I would prefer S Guaranitica var purpurea is that it is purportedly more cold hardy, so would be one less annual to buy. Also I love the Guaranitica species (definitely getting Argentine Skies also- and Blue Ensugn if it is different than the one I just planted recently). On "Robin's Salvias" website (have you heard of it - he is a Salvia lover and collector in the UK and has quite a few and some good info) Brazlian purple is a hybrid with uncertain parentage, one parent species is supposedly Brazilian S splendens. That is the only I info I have been able to find about it.
