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Salvia 'Amethyst Lips' - SAGE 'AMETHYST LIPS'
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SAL-X-AMELIPS
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$8.99
Tender aromatic perennial with bi-color puple-white flowers.
Sometimes flowers are more purple, even white and all stages can be present on one plant.
Easy to grow and fast growing plant, in cooler regions better treated as annual.
Can be cut back 1/3 to 1/2 for more dense growth.
Blooming time: early summer to late fall, can slow down with the summer heat
Size: 2-3' tall and wide
USDA Zones: 8 to 10
Culture: Full sun, half shade, average moist, moderately fertile and somewhat drained soils. Adaptable to soil types. Established plants are drought tolerant.
Moisture Needs: average (medium) to medium-dry, seasonally medium-moist
Origin: Possible hybrid of Salvia microphylla (native to SW Arizona, and mountains of eastern, western, and southern Mexico, variable species that tends to hybridize easily).Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes
Attracts Hummingbirds: yes
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant Combinations: Combine with any perennial in sunny border, hummingbird or pollinator garden, great for bigger containers, close to patios.
Good companions can be Agastache, Amsonia, Asclepias, Asters, Baptisia, Coreopsis, Eryngium juccifolium, Echinacea, Gaura, Liatris, Penstemons, Yucca, or other native grasses like Boutelloa curtipendula, Sporobolus heterolepis, Panicum.
And non-native perennials like Achillea, summer blooming Allium, Aquilegia, Calamintha, Geranium, Gypsohila, Iris x barbata, Iris sibirica, Leucanthemum x superbum, Nepeta, Origanum, Paeonia, Perovskia, Platycodon, Salvia, tall Sedum, Sempervivum, Stachys, and may others.
Goes well with plant requiring more moisture too - Phlox, Heliopsis, Hemerocallis, Physostegia etc.
Pictures Copyright: Sam Bahr
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Salvia 'Amethyst Lips' - SAGE 'AMETHYST LIPS'
$8.99
Tender aromatic perennial with bi-color puple-white flowers.
Sometimes flowers are more purple, even white and all stages can be present on one plant.
Easy to grow and fast growing plant, in cooler regions better treated as annual.
Can be cut back 1/3 to 1/2 for more dense growth.
Blooming time: early summer to late fall, can slow down with the summer heat
Size: 2-3' tall and wide
USDA Zones: 8 to 10
Culture: Full sun, half shade, average moist, moderately fertile and somewhat drained soils. Adaptable to soil types. Established plants are drought tolerant.
Moisture Needs: average (medium) to medium-dry, seasonally medium-moist
Origin: Possible hybrid of Salvia microphylla (native to SW Arizona, and mountains of eastern, western, and southern Mexico, variable species that tends to hybridize easily).Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes
Attracts Hummingbirds: yes
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant Combinations: Combine with any perennial in sunny border, hummingbird or pollinator garden, great for bigger containers, close to patios.
Good companions can be Agastache, Amsonia, Asclepias, Asters, Baptisia, Coreopsis, Eryngium juccifolium, Echinacea, Gaura, Liatris, Penstemons, Yucca, or other native grasses like Boutelloa curtipendula, Sporobolus heterolepis, Panicum.
And non-native perennials like Achillea, summer blooming Allium, Aquilegia, Calamintha, Geranium, Gypsohila, Iris x barbata, Iris sibirica, Leucanthemum x superbum, Nepeta, Origanum, Paeonia, Perovskia, Platycodon, Salvia, tall Sedum, Sempervivum, Stachys, and may others.
Goes well with plant requiring more moisture too - Phlox, Heliopsis, Hemerocallis, Physostegia etc.
Pictures Copyright: Sam Bahr
