Salvia nemorosa

Description

Salvia nemorosa is a striking upright-flowering perennial that produces abundant spikes of purple flowers from early summer onwards, and provides a great architectural and colourful presence in gardens and planting schemes, particularly when mass planted. The foliage emerges from mid-spring in a tight cluster of basal growth and from early to mid-summer onwards flowering spikes grow from the centre of the plant, with rich purple flowers opening from red-purple calyxes up the length of the flowering stem. Salvia nemorosas looks especially good planted in drifts but specimen plants can also work, or dotted throughout a border. They are a plant that no one aspiring to put together a cottage garden should be without, but they look equally at home in more modern planting schemes thanks to their architectural structure. They are loved by all kinds of pollinating insects and will often be covered in bees at the height of summer.

These established, garden-ready plants have been grown in peat-free compost at our nursery in Cornwall and are supplied in two-litre containers. They will grow to an ultimate height of around 50cm (20 inches), with a similar spread.