Just about 50 days from sowing the seed, you will see the first blooms open on upright, vigorous, well-branched plants. The flowers are flared and tubular, about ½-inch long, and they arise very closely spaced on long, slender stems. Held out like flags, they call to every butterfly, hummingbird, and bee in the garden!
Summer Jewel™ Lavender is a dwarf, but it sets so many hundreds of blooms over its lengthy late-spring-through-early-fall season that it's hard to believe the flower power. And these blooms are weather tough, bouncing right back from wind, rain, and extreme heat. Never been an annual sage with this kind of performance before!
The blooms crowd along sturdy stems among fuzzy mid-green foliage on plants just 15 to 20 inches high in bloom and 10 to 15 inches wide. So compact you can grow them in containers, they pack a big color punch in the garden, too! When autumn comes and the plants set seed, goldfinches swoop in for a big feast.
Summer Jewel™ Lavender is a native plant, content in any well-drained soil receiving full sunshine to light shade, but best when the soil is fertile and the moisture is consistent. It will tolerate heat, humidity, dry soil, and other stresses, but you'll want to pamper it to keep those amazing blooms coming in the greatest possible number. The show is just too jaw-dropping to cut short!
Be sure to plant a few Summer Jewel™ Lavender plants among your vegetables and herbs, too. By attracting beneficial insects and other pollinators, this Sage actually helps keep down the numbers of destructive pests that might attack your food crops. And the blooms really brighten up the "working" garden!
Hardy in zones 7-10, this Sage is grown as an annual everywhere. Packet is 25 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.
Just about 50 days from sowing the seed, you will see the first blooms open on upright, vigorous, well-branched plants. The flowers are flared and tubular, about ½-inch long, and they arise very closely spaced on long, slender stems. Held out like flags, they call to every butterfly, hummingbird, and bee in the garden!
Summer Jewel™ Lavender is a dwarf, but it sets so many hundreds of blooms over its lengthy late-spring-through-early-fall season that it's hard to believe the flower power. And these blooms are weather tough, bouncing right back from wind, rain, and extreme heat. Never been an annual sage with this kind of performance before!
The blooms crowd along sturdy stems among fuzzy mid-green foliage on plants just 15 to 20 inches high in bloom and 10 to 15 inches wide. So compact you can grow them in containers, they pack a big color punch in the garden, too! When autumn comes and the plants set seed, goldfinches swoop in for a big feast.
Summer Jewel™ Lavender is a native plant, content in any well-drained soil receiving full sunshine to light shade, but best when the soil is fertile and the moisture is consistent. It will tolerate heat, humidity, dry soil, and other stresses, but you'll want to pamper it to keep those amazing blooms coming in the greatest possible number. The show is just too jaw-dropping to cut short!
Be sure to plant a few Summer Jewel™ Lavender plants among your vegetables and herbs, too. By attracting beneficial insects and other pollinators, this Sage actually helps keep down the numbers of destructive pests that might attack your food crops. And the blooms really brighten up the "working" garden!
Hardy in zones 7-10, this Sage is grown as an annual everywhere. Packet is 25 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.