Salvia nemorosa - and its close allies
I grow about twenty different named clones of this most beautiful and useful group of Salvias. Except for a couple of my own seedlings and one plant generously given to me by the Geelong Botanic Gardens, all the cultivars I grow are from imported stock and reproduced by cuttings. Besides growing them in the garden I also have them in permanent stock beds. At Lambley, where temperatures range from -8C up to 47C, they get by on very little extra irrigation and are soundly frost hardy. They flower well during the most torrid summer days.
The Salvia nemorosa group is more important in our garden than any other group of plants. They are very easy to manage. When the first flush of flowers is finished, generally around Christmas but earlier with some clones, we get out the hedge shears and cut the plants to the ground. They soon send up fresh young shoots and start flowering again a month or so afterwards. I cut them to the ground again in late autumn.
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This salvia is one of the best of nemorosa types with spikes of rich violet flowers set in large lilac bracts from late spring until autumn. It responds well to dead heading although we cut it to the ground when it looks tired after the first 12 weeks of flowers. It repays, more...
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This plant was raised by the Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf and is a great improvement on the seed raised varieties such as S. ‘Rose Queen’. In the dry garden we grow a decent patch by the side of a narrow path with purple Alliums and dark blue Agapanthus. Salvia, more...
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Softer and more nearly true blue than other Salvia nemorosa types this is a wonderful addition to the group. Gentle mauve-blue flower spikes are produced on a tidy low growing plant from spring until winter. Like all the nemorosas we cut this to the ground during winter and, more...
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I never grow tired of these good tough salvias. S. ‘Caradonna’ distinguishes itself by holding its rich violet flower spikes on stiff black stems. A fairly new plant it has done very well in our dry garden this year where it flowered early on with creamy lemon Lupinus, more...
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A chance seedling which I found growing in our double flower borders near Salvia x superba ‘Tanzarin’ and S. nemorosa ‘Ostfriesland’ and I can only assume that it is a hybrid between those two. Tall and stiffly upright with markedly blackish stems and spikes of glowing dark, more...
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The dwarfest of all the Salvia nemorosa types making short spikes of dark violet blue flowers a mere 30cm tall. Useful for the front of the border or even a rock garden. 30cm x 30cm.
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A stunning German bred plant with dozens of spikes of glowing rich deep violet flowers beginning in late spring. After about 10 weeks of extraordinary beauty the flowers pass their prime and we cut the whole plant to the ground. After 2 or 3 weeks this ruthlessness is, more...
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There aren’t many good white flowered salvias. Salvia ‘Snow Hills’ is a sport of S. ‘Blue Hills’ (Blauhugel) and makes dwarf tidy clumps of stiff upright stems which carry spikes of clean white flowers. It has grown well in the dry climate garden here at Lambley Nursery, more...
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