Salvia farinacea 'Victoria Blue Bicolour'
mealy cup sage
- 9cm pot
- £6.99
- available to order from summer
- 2 + 1 FREE 9cm pots
- £13.98 £4.66 each
- available to order from summer
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- Standard £5.99
- Position: full sun
- Soil: moderately fertile, humus-rich, well-drained soil, or general-purpose compost for containers
- Rate of growth: average
- Flowering period: May to October
- Hardiness: half-hardy (will need winter protection)
Salvia farinacea 'Victoria Blue Bicolour' is a tender perennial more commonly grown as an annual that bears a striking resemblance to lavender, showcasing greyish-white flower spikes that burst open to reveal vivid blue flowers that rise above a foliage of narrow, fresh green leaves.
This compact and multi-branched cultivar blooms profusely from late spring all the way to the first frosts. With its easy-to-grow nature and low maintenance, this seasonal stunner requires minimal deadheading and is a butterfly magnet. Also excellent for cut flower displays, and like other salvias, the plant is highly deer and rabbit resistant.
This compact and multi-branched cultivar blooms profusely from late spring all the way to the first frosts. With its easy-to-grow nature and low maintenance, this seasonal stunner requires minimal deadheading and is a butterfly magnet. Also excellent for cut flower displays, and like other salvias, the plant is highly deer and rabbit resistant.
Grow on under glass until all risk of frost has passed and they can then either be planted outside into a well-prepared bed, or used to fill decorative pots on the patio.
Pinching out the growing tips will encourage them to become bushier, and feeding with a high-potash fertiliser at regular intervals throughout the summer will promote even more flowerspikes to form.
Pinching out the growing tips will encourage them to become bushier, and feeding with a high-potash fertiliser at regular intervals throughout the summer will promote even more flowerspikes to form.