This is the very dark, early flowering Salvia which grows near the entrance to my dry garden. It’s in full flight by October a good month before most of its kind. The stiff vertical deep violet blue spikes contrast wonderfully well with yellowy green Euphorbias. I cut the whole plant down to the ground twice a year, once in late autumn as we have under planted it with small winter flowering bulbs and again in early summer to get a second display in late summer and autumn. 45cm x 40cm.