Salvia Species, Glutinous Sage, Jupiter Distaff Sage, Sticky Sage

***INVASIVE WARNING***

Beware of planting this plant as it has invasive tendencies. The Lower Hudson Partnership for Regi...Read Moreonal Invasive Species Management (LH PRISM) is currently trying to manage a 100+ acre site in New York State which escaped from a garden planting. This species creates vast monocultures in both sun and shade, dry and wet.

I've been growing this plant under sugar maples for many years (zone 5). I haven't watered it ever even in dry years. It does self sow....Read More Transplanting larger plants doesn't always work so well.

I planted some S glutinosa in dry clay in front of my garden hose. It started very dry there, and stopped fussing in less than a month. I...Read Moret now grows strong and seems to be flowering all summer.

I use that hose more often now, so I'm not certain that it's growing dry. It might be growing alternating wet and dry clay, which would be quite a trick.

This Salvia has surprised me because of the size of it's flowers. The flowers are about 1 inch and that makes this Salvia showy. The leav...Read Morees also kept looking fresh and nice through our summer 's drought and heat in my sheltered southfacing garden. I 'm recently disappointed about the very tiny yellow flowers of S. roborowski that I've pulled out. It is flowering for the first time for me after sowing. I've planted the seedlings out in spring 2003.
I like it that it's flowering somewhat later in the season (august). As far I can judge it: it's a keeper in my garden.

Salvia glutinosa is also called Sticky Sage. The calyx of the flower is very sticky..