Salvia 'Phyllis Fancy'
(Sage 'Phyllis' Fancy')
Family - Lamiaceae
Category - Perennial
Season of Interest - Spring, Summer, Autumn
Hardiness - H3
Height - 1.5m or more
Width - 1m or more
Location - The Terrace
Description: An Evergreen Perennial with a bushy habit and aromatic foliage. Bright mid-green leaves are ovate to lanceolate with pointed tips. Downy, tubular 2-lipped flowers are white to pale blue. The Blooms are darker in cooler weather. Each flower is subtended by an attractive deep purple Calyx. The flowers are held in long, whorled spikes on tall, dark stems and produced over a long period from midsummer through late autumn, or until hit by hard frosts. Attractive to pollinating insects.
Flower:
Downy, tubular 2-lipped flowers are white to pale blue. The flowers develop a darker hue in cooler weather. Each bloom is subtended by a prominent deep purple calyx. The blooms are held in whorled spikes and produced on tall, dark stems from July into November, or until hit by hard frosts.
Flower colour: White, purple
Flower shape: Tubular 2-lipped flowers in whorled spikes
Flowering time: July, August, September, October, November
Foliage:
Aromatic, bright mid-green leaves are ovate to lanceolate in shape with pointed tips. The leaves are held in opposite pairs on square, upright stems.
Foliage Senescence: Evergreen
Foliage Shape: Lanceolate to ovate
Propagation:
Cuttings
Cultivation:
Best in a sheltered, sunny position in fertile, well-drained soil.