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Salvia Plants
The contrast between their vibrant flowers and dark, fragrant foliage make salvias the perfect plants to decorate your borders! As you can probably tell from our collection, our growers love salvia and are always looking out for the latest varieties to add to the nursery. These slender perennials flourish in full sunlight, and are a firm favourite of bees and other valuable pollinators. Typically growing up to around 50cm, they’re perfectly sized for the front of a border, underplanting trees or showcasing in pots.
Which salvia?
Not to be confused with the short lived annual salvias, ours are all perennials which will come back year after year. They come in so many different colours that there’s bound to be one to fit your scheme, from the soft pastels of Merleau Rose, Blue Hill and refreshing Lyrical White to the bold red and white bicolour of Hot Lips or the deep purples, blues and magentas of the Fashionista series. Mix them up or stick to a single colour, they’re all compact enough for borders, beds or pots.
Planting schemes and partners
Salvias are a versatile and colourful addition to a wildlife friendly garden, pairing well with meadow plants and grasses, as well as flowers in similar shades such as lavender, penstemon and foxgloves. Plant them in pots, in the front of sunny borders or dotted throughout your mixed border as vertical accents. Why not plant some near your vegetable plot or fruit plants, to attract bees and boost your crops? It’s said that planting salvia with roses will help to keep mildew and black spot at bay. As a relative of herb sage, salvias have beautifully scented foliage, so they make a good addition to a scented garden too.
Growing tips
Salvias like lots of sun, so they should be planted in the brightest and warmest spot in your garden. Moist, well draining soil is a must, and you’ll be glad to know that they become drought resistant once they’re established in the ground, usually after about a year. Until this point, water them regularly until autumn, and deadhead faded flowers to keep them blooming for longer. It’s a good idea to take cuttings from your salvia plants at the end of summer and to mulch around your plants in autumn to protect against any damage caused by a very wet and cold winter.
Plant out quickly with pre-planted trays, or tease apart & plant more widely
- A selection of colourful native UK wildflowers from over 26 varieties
- Attracts wildlife including bees and butterflies to your garden
- Wildflower meadow pre-planted trays - easily fill beds or containers
- Easy to grow and care for plants, flowering for years to come!
Make your garden pretty in pink
- Beautiful and vibrant magenta pink flower spikes
- Dark green provides excellent ground cover
- Flowers all summer long and into Autumn!
- Hardy and very easy to grow and care for
A cottage garden essential!
- Rose pink flowers clustered on compact, upright stems above fragrant foliage
- Long flowering season from July to October
- Compact variety that's perfect for pots or front borders
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
Compact salvia in classic colours
- Small purple blue flowers on slender stems
- Summer flowering from July to October
- Adds scent and colour to a sunny border
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
An award winning Salvia with massive blooms
- Uniquely large violet purple flower spikes
- Flowers all summer long and into Autumn!
- Hardy and very easy to grow and care for
- Buy an almost mature plant ready to bloom!
Rose towers of bloom from Spring to Autumn
- Large, vibrant magenta pink flowers all summer
- Flowers from May to October!
- Hardy and very easy to grow and care for
- Compact, neat growth of dark green foliage
This season's must-have, in White
- Clusters of Cotton White flowers on upright spires
- Flowers from June to October
- Stunning as a feature in pots
- Adds height to a Cottage Garden border
Purples as dark as the midnight Milky Way
- Profusions of rich violet purple flowers
- Flowers from Late Spring through Summer
- Create a cottage garden aesthetic
- Hardy Perennial–will come back year after year
Bright and compact flowers with fragrant foliage
- Long flowering from June to October
- The perfect colour mix for the front of borders or in pots
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
- Perfect for pollinators
Summer-long displays of red and white
- Two-toned white and candy-apple red flowers on tall stems
- Flowers from July right through to October
- Compact and colourful for the front of a border
- Fragrant foliage
Delicate Lavender Blue, adored by bees
- Lavender blue flowers rising from emerald green foliage
- Flowers from June to October
- Stunning as a feature in pots
- Perfect for the front of a border
Unique silver-blue colour all summer long
- Compact spikes packed with light silvery-blue flowers
- Flowers all summer
- Silver-grey aromatic foliage
- RHS Plants for Pollinators
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