Natures plants and roots used for medicinal purpose, culinary flavors, natural cure and remedies. Discover the power of Sage and other aromatic plants, exotic spices and herbs used for natural healing, cooking, and healthy living.
Salvia Leucantha Velvet Sage
Velvet sage is a shrubby sage with woolly stems and leaves and 10-foot spires of white flowers with purple calyces from midsummer through frost.
- Salvia leucantha 'Midnight' has red-violet flowers and purple calyces.
- Salvia leucantha 'Santa Barbara' is a compact selection, 2 feet tall.
- Salvia leucantha 'Anthony Parker' is a hybrid with purple-blue flowers.
Salvia Nemorosa Garden Sage
Garden sage is a lovely sage smothered in stiff spikes of violet blue flowers for 3 to 4 weeks in early to midsummer. Triangular leaves are soft, hairy, and bright green.
- Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna' is tall with open spikes of blue-violet flowers.
- Salvia nemorosa 'Lubecca' has blue-violet flowers on tall, open spikes.
- Salvia nemorosa 'Marcus' is a true dwarf with blue-violet flowers.
- Salvia nemorosa 'Ostfriesland' ('East Friesland') has deep purple flowers on compact stems.
- Salvia nemorosa 'Blaukonigin' ('Blue Queen') has violet flowers.
- Salvia nemorosa 'Rosenkonigin' ('Rose Queen') has rose-pink flowers.
- Salvia nemorosa 'Schneehuegal' ('Snow Hill') has white flowers.
- Salvia nemorosa 'Viola Klose' has dark blue flowers.
- Salvia nemorosa 'Mainacht' ('May Night') has purple flowers and red-violet calyxes.
Salvia Nemorosa (violet sage) forms an open mound of narrow, rough leaves bearing upright, narrow spikes of tiny, tubular, violet-purple flowers. Most plants listed as Salvia nemorosa are actually cultivars or hybrids.
Salvia cultivars are sometimes listed under the similar Salvia xsylvestris. The cultivars are similar to the species, but they vary in flower color and are more compact, with denser, more rounded mounds of foliage. The bloom in early summer to midsummer, with repeat bloom into fall if deadheaded regularly. Violet sage can be tender in areas with wet winters.
Salvia officinalis Culinary Sage
Ornamental and culinary, a semiwoody shrub with woolly, oblong leaves and somewhat insignificant blue-violet flowers. Many handsome leaf colors with compact form are available.
- Salvia officinalis 'Berggarten' has broad oval leaves with blue-violet flowers.
- Salvia officinalis 'Compacta' is compact with smaller leaves.
- Salvia officinalis 'Icterina' has gold-and-green variegated foliage.
- Salvia officinalis 'Purpurescens' has gray-violet leaves.
- Salvia officinalis 'Tricolor' has pink, green, and white leaves.
Broadleaf Sage: is another member of the Salvia officinalis family and a popular culinary sage used by professional chefs and cooks around the world for its strong unique flavor, and aroma. Broad leaf Sage can also be used as an ornamental for foliage and flowers.
Salvia Pratensis Meadow Sage
Meadow Sage is a slender sage with bushy rosettes of oval leaves and tall, branching stems tipped with showy violet-blue flowers. Excellent cultivars are available.
- Salvia pratensis 'Haematodes' has showy blue-violet flowers.
- Salvia pratensis 'Rosea' has rose-purple flowers.
- Salvia pratensis 'Purple Rain' is smoky purple.
- Salvia pratensis 'White Rain' is white flowered and has a more complact form.
- Salvia verticillata, whorled sage, is a sprawling species with blue flowrs atop lax spikes.