Salvia nemorosa 'Wesuwe' MEADOW SAGE Live Perennial Plant Attract Butterflies

Description

Live plants are usually cut back for ease of shipment but plenty of healthy/new growth will surely follow. Please be sure to unpack and plant your plant(s) upon delivery.
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Botanical Name: Salvia nemorosa 'Wesuwe'
Common Name: Meadow Sage
Bloom Time: June to Septemeber
Flower: reddish-purple
Plant Height: 12 to 24 inches
Foliage: Fragrant
Plant size: 2.5" pot
Requirements: Full sun. Prefers moist, well drained soil.
Life-cycle: Perennial
Tolerate: Deer, Drought, Dry Soil, Air Pollution
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-8
Culture:
Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soil in full sun. Prefers moist, gravelly or sandy soils with good drainage, but tolerates drought. Plants may repeat bloom throughout the summer, but need regular moisture to encourage this. Remove spent flower spikes to help extend the bloom period. Plants may become somewhat floppy and open up as the summer progresses, particularly in humid climates. If plants flop or otherwise depreciate in summer to the point where they look unsightly, consider cutting them back to the basal foliage. In any event, cut plants back after flowering has concluded.
Noteworthy Characteristics:
Salvia nemerosa, commonly known as woodland sage, violet sage or salvia, is an erect, many-branched, woody-based, clump-forming perennial that typically grows to 18-36” tall and to 24” wide. It is native to Europe and west-central Asia. Lavender to violet blue flowers (1/2” long) subtended by tiny reddish-purple bracts bloom from June to September in dense, terminal, upright, spike-like, racemes rising well above the foliage. Flowers are attractive to bees and butterflies. Notched, wrinkled, ovate-lanceolate to oblong, medium green to gray-green leaves (to 4” long) are aromatic when bruised.
Genus name comes from the Latin word salveo meaning to save or heal in reference to the purported medically curative properties attributed to some plants in the genus.
Specific epithet means growing in groves or woods.
Salvia nemorosa ‘Wesuwe’ sage has grey-green foliage and a relaxed, vertical habit. Flowers profusely with dense spikes of a reddish-purple, with red bracts that last on the stem. Deadhead or cut back to keep this sage flowering longer.
Garden Uses:
Perennial borders, cottage gardens, butterfly gardens, wild gardens or along paths. Plant in groups for interesting accent.