A recently discovered, extremely rare, Salvia species from Oaxaca, Mexico. This is a large, summer-flowering perennial, with huge blue flowers, and vine-shaped leaves. I would suggest that this would like to grow in shade. Hardiness is not known.
Robin.
Robin, that is an absolutely gorgeous shade of blue--I love it! Too bad it's extremely rare!
Absolutely Fabulous:)
Wow! What a beautiful blue salvia!
Bluetiful!
It is closely related to Salvia patens. Strybing (now the San Francisco Botanical Garden) had a S. mendax that was similar.
I attached an image of a magnificent S. patens from Cabrillo College.
It is too bad Robin could not get there, but there will be a second conference, probably in 2 - 5 years, and it is good that we did not cover everything in the first year. Based on the universal enthusiasm and interest amongst both the speakers and attendees, you will be greeted at the second meeting with great interest and anticipation.
Here is a closeup. Ernie Wasson liked to point out that there were so many dropped flowers that there was a virtual blue carpet under the plant.
This is in full sun in Aptos? Hmmm., I'll have to consider that, though they are somewhat milder there than here.
The plant was in a shady location towards the back of the garden.
Ahh! Thank you. I have mine in a large pot in a somewhat shaded location...keeping a watchful eye on this one.I'm finding that an awful lot of my salvias do much better in partial shade or dappled light.
