This attractive landscape annual produces intense violet-blue spikes from early summer to fall. Its foliage is an attractive gray-green in color, combining well with other flowers. Useful as a backdrop or in mass plantings in beds and borders.
Salvia helps attract bees to the garden that can help pollinate tomatoes and other crops.
Sow seeds directly outdoors soon after danger of frost has passed. For earlier blooms sow seeds indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. When seedlings are about 2 inches high thin or transplant 18-24 inches apart. Ed's Special Advice Salvia grows best in a mostly sunny location with normal well drained soil. Plants may live over in mild winter areas.