Each of these little native plants has more flowering spikes than you might think possible, appearing from the center and shooting up to 10 inches long. Packed with rich dark blue and white bicolor blooms, they are a stunning sight in the sunny garden, adding deep color to the brights and pastels of surrounding plants.
Mealy-Cup Sage is native to Texas and Mexico, known for its rich colors and abundant blooms. Fairy Queen takes this to extremes, with longer flowering spikes, far more profuse blooms, and a longer season! Expect the bicolor azure-and-white flowers to begin in early summer and to continue 'til the middle of fall, delighting the butterflies and hummingbirds as well as cut-flower lovers everywhere.
One of the easiest plants to grow, Fairy Queen stands up effortlessly to heat, humidity, drought, pests, diseases, and poor soil. It is perennial in zones 8-10 and happily grown as an annual everywhere else. put it in containers behind low-growing or trailing annuals, fill the sunny bed or border with its stately spikes, or line it along walkways and drives. This plant is so carefree that it is bound to be successful in just about any sunny, well-drained soil.
If you like this Mealy-Cup Sage, take a look at award-winning Evolution and ultra-slender, midnight-violet Victoria. Plants this beautiful and easy are hard to come by, and you may just want to create a low-maintenance, water-saving Salvia garden!
Packet is 50 seeds.
A vast array of colors and sizes for just about any use in borders, bedding, edging, and planters. In summer or fall they produce spikes of tubular flowers that are 2-lipped. Salvia splendens is an annual native to Brazil, grows 6-36 inches tall. Salvia sclarea var. turkestanica grows 36 inches tall with bright pink flowers in summer and fall. It is a biennial native to Turkestan that is hardy from Zones 4 to 7. Salvia superba grows 2-3 feet tall with deep blue to purple flowers. It is hardy from Zones 4 to 7. Salvia microphylla, Baby Salvia, is shrubby and grows 3-6 feet tall with red flowers. It is a half-hardy perennial native to Mexico that is fully hardy in Zones 8 to 10. Salvia farinaceae grows 18-36 inches tall with blue flowers and gray-green leaves. It is a perennial in Zones 8 to 10, but is grown as an annual in colder climates. Native to New Mexico and Texas. Salvia viridis (S. horminium) grows 18 inches tall with rose, pink, purple, blue, or white flowers. Native to Southern Europe, it is a perennial in Zones 9 and 10, but is grown as an annual in colder climates
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
Each of these little native plants has more flowering spikes than you might think possible, appearing from the center and shooting up to 10 inches long. Packed with rich dark blue and white bicolor blooms, they are a stunning sight in the sunny garden, adding deep color to the brights and pastels of surrounding plants.
Mealy-Cup Sage is native to Texas and Mexico, known for its rich colors and abundant blooms. Fairy Queen takes this to extremes, with longer flowering spikes, far more profuse blooms, and a longer season! Expect the bicolor azure-and-white flowers to begin in early summer and to continue 'til the middle of fall, delighting the butterflies and hummingbirds as well as cut-flower lovers everywhere.
One of the easiest plants to grow, Fairy Queen stands up effortlessly to heat, humidity, drought, pests, diseases, and poor soil. It is perennial in zones 8-10 and happily grown as an annual everywhere else. put it in containers behind low-growing or trailing annuals, fill the sunny bed or border with its stately spikes, or line it along walkways and drives. This plant is so carefree that it is bound to be successful in just about any sunny, well-drained soil.
If you like this Mealy-Cup Sage, take a look at award-winning Evolution and ultra-slender, midnight-violet Victoria. Plants this beautiful and easy are hard to come by, and you may just want to create a low-maintenance, water-saving Salvia garden!
Packet is 50 seeds.
A vast array of colors and sizes for just about any use in borders, bedding, edging, and planters. In summer or fall they produce spikes of tubular flowers that are 2-lipped. Salvia splendens is an annual native to Brazil, grows 6-36 inches tall. Salvia sclarea var. turkestanica grows 36 inches tall with bright pink flowers in summer and fall. It is a biennial native to Turkestan that is hardy from Zones 4 to 7. Salvia superba grows 2-3 feet tall with deep blue to purple flowers. It is hardy from Zones 4 to 7. Salvia microphylla, Baby Salvia, is shrubby and grows 3-6 feet tall with red flowers. It is a half-hardy perennial native to Mexico that is fully hardy in Zones 8 to 10. Salvia farinaceae grows 18-36 inches tall with blue flowers and gray-green leaves. It is a perennial in Zones 8 to 10, but is grown as an annual in colder climates. Native to New Mexico and Texas. Salvia viridis (S. horminium) grows 18 inches tall with rose, pink, purple, blue, or white flowers. Native to Southern Europe, it is a perennial in Zones 9 and 10, but is grown as an annual in colder climates
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.