Growing Conditions

A vigorous and long blooming sage. Reddish flowers, a bit irregular with shrubby growth. Attracts hummingbirds, some bees and some butterflies. Blooming Time: long flowering, starting in early to mid summer until fall (or frost)Size: 3-4' tall and wide...

Sage hybrid with 15" long spikes of reddish-orange flowers all summer long till frost. Offer your hummingbirds the best natural feeder! Attracts some bees too. Some irregular growth, just like any larger microphyla hybrid - it's good to cut it back 1/3...

Aromatic sage with hot red tubular flowers. 'Tangerine' is much shorter - only 2' tall. Attracts hummingbirds and other pollinators. Often grown as annual. Blooming Time: early summer (late spring in warmer zones) to frosts/fallSize: 24" tall x 24 " wide...

Compact white cultivar of Mealy Sage with powdery white flowers, and green-grayish leaves. Easy to grow with a very long flowering season.  In cooler zones often grown as an annual. Drought, heat and humidity tolerant and pollinator friendly! Often...

Valuable end of summer / early to mid fall blooming shade perennial (when nearly nothing blooms in your shade garden)Bi-color orchid pink large flowers with darker lip. Aromatic leaves = deer and rabbit resistant. Vigorous plant. Blooming Time:...

Sage 'Black and Blue' is a large, robust, flowering machine for bigger space and hummingbird magnet. Originates in Brazil, Paraguay and northern Argentina, but quickly became popular in North America. Shrarp color combination of brilliant sky blue...

This interesting Himalayan sage, first documented in 1830, has scented, hairy leaves and forms a medium-sized mounded/shrubby shape. The 1.5", tubular, purple-blue flowers with two lips appear from early through late summer,...

The fuzzy, arrow-shaped leaves are fragrant, ornamental and grow up to 6" long. Larger, yellow flowers that are also scented bloom from late summer through mid fall. This sage forms clumps, creeps with trailing stems, and may self-seed in ideal...

Dark purple fuzzy flowers, velvety foliage. Robust, vigorous, flowers late in the season till frosts. Heat and humidity tolerant and pollinator magnet! Blooming time: August till frostSize: 2-3' tall and wide, if grown as annual. Where it's winter hardy,...

Salvia lyrata is native sage, and this deep burgundy-leaved cultivar, which goes by several other names including 'Purple Knockout,' 'Purple Prince,' and 'Burgundy Bliss,' behaves exactly like its parent. Very easy to grow perennial and unbelievably...

Highly adaptable and freely seeding native perennial. This is fairly small/narrow plant that grows from flat basal rosette of leaves with showy flowers.  Great for naturalization or groundcovering substitute for lawn.  Blooming Time: Flower in...

Showy sage more known in Tradicional Chinese Medicine (TCM) than in horticulture. Trouble free plant with interesting fall color. Usually grows to 2' in height x 1.5' of width, leaves are pinnatifid (which is less common for sage), roots thick and dark...

New hybrid from random cross pollination of Salvia indica (Western Asia) and Salvia moorcroftiana (from Pakistan to Nepal). Long season flowering perennial. 2.5-3' tall x 2' wide clumps. Rosettes of bigger gray and fuzzy leaves, bluish flowers from May...

Interesting sage with fuzzy leaves and small purple-violet flowers and dark calyxes. For hot and drier garden. Clump perennial, 2' tall and 1-1.5' wide, flowers from May to August. Full sun to half shade, drained to well drained soil (sandy, gritty,...

Piet Oudolf introduction, showy cultivar with dark stems and lavender-pink flower in late spring and early summer. Award of Garden Merit by Royal Horticultural Society in Britain. 24" tall x 20 wide clumps, flowers end of May/beg. June till July, when...

Meadow Sage 'Blue By You' - heat tolerant, sterile (no seeding), and reliable rebloomer (up to 5 flowering cycles per season). All-American Selections Winner. Great performer and universal perennial for any garden. Blooming Time: Starts to bloom about...

Compact and blooming for a very long season. The Marvel series offers the largest flowers of Meadow Sage hybrids! Flowers the whole season, if deadheaded. Deep violet blue flowers, dark calyxes. Flowers arranged in wider and shorter spikes. Upright...

Meadow sage 'Caradonna' is very strictly upright perennial, grows to 24" tall, narrow clumps to 12-14". Dark purple flowers, dark stems, excellent vertical structure that doesn't flop. Majority of Meadow sage cultivars or hybrids are clump forming, dense...