Salvia longispicata x farinacea (Salvia)
Color Name: Mysty
A thriller for your containers and landscape! Mysty Salvia stands 12-18 inches tall. The true blue spikes of Mysty Salvia create a great focal point for mixed containers. An outstanding annual for heat-tolerant gardens, this compact plant produces an abundance of large, showy blue flower spikes. Wonderful in a container, garden bed, or as a cut flower.
Salvias are known for their aromatic, attractive foliage in many different sizes, shapes, and hues, as well as for their bold, colorful blooms that flower over a long period. Heat and drought tolerant and loved by hummingbirds. Flowers are long-lasting and plants readily rebloom if deadheaded or if trimmed back after flowering.
Growing Tips: You can easily trim to keep the shape or size where you want it, and it will branch out and become even thicker and more full of flowers. Regular watering and fertilizing will keep the plant at maximum color and growth but it is amazingly tough and once established in a pot of the garden will tolerate lower levels of food and water. However, severe drought will cause lower leaves to drop and if this happens give it a quick haircut removing the upper 1/3 of growth and once it back to normal watering it will fill back in.
Photo courtesy of Ball Horticultural Company.
A thriller for your containers and landscape! Mysty Salvia stands 12-18 inches tall. The true blue spikes of Mysty Salvia create a great focal point for mixed containers. An outstanding annual for heat-tolerant gardens, this compact plant produces an abundance of large, showy blue flower spikes. Wonderful in a container, garden bed, or as a cut flower.
Salvias are known for their aromatic, attractive foliage in many different sizes, shapes, and hues, as well as for their bold, colorful blooms that flower over a long period. Heat and drought tolerant and loved by hummingbirds. Flowers are long-lasting and plants readily rebloom if deadheaded or if trimmed back after flowering.
Growing Tips: You can easily trim to keep the shape or size where you want it, and it will branch out and become even thicker and more full of flowers. Regular watering and fertilizing will keep the plant at maximum color and growth but it is amazingly tough and once established in a pot of the garden will tolerate lower levels of food and water. However, severe drought will cause lower leaves to drop and if this happens give it a quick haircut removing the upper 1/3 of growth and once it back to normal watering it will fill back in.
Photo courtesy of Ball Horticultural Company.
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Flower Color: Blue Shades Foliage Color: Green Shades
Height: 12 to 18 Inches Spread: 12 to 18 Inches Hardy in Zone: 10 |
Blooms: Spring to Fall
Foliage Season: All Season |
Exposure
Full Sun
Partial Shade
Soil Moisture Needs
Moderate
Attributes |
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Attracts
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Critter Resistance
Deer
