SALVIA 'Silke's Dream'
Medium
Sun
Red
Well drained soil
Summer
Pollinator friendly
Description
Salvia 'Silke's Dream'
Height x Spread: 75cm x 40cm
Large, airy spikes of coral red tubular flowers are carried on reddish green stems above tidy, triangular green leaves that smell sweetly of sage. A recent introduction from America after a cross between Salvia darcyi and Salvia macrophylla.
Low maintenance, it can tolerate coastal conditions away from the wind, as well as more sheltered, free draining, inland gardens. In exposed and colder areas, grow it in a container and bring it under cover, frost-free, for the winter. Bees, butterflies and moths love it. To get the best from this plant, grow it in a thin, light, fairly fertile, free draining soil in full sun.
Available for Mail Order from April - August
Rosy's Colour Picks
COTA tinctoria 'Sauce Hollandaise'
The flowers of this plant are a very soft creamy yellow with a darker ring at the centre, which attracts bees to the pollen.
PSEUDODICTAMNUS mediterraneus
Low-growing mounds of tactile grey-green heart shaped foliage on woolly white stems, which produce small pink flowers in their leaf joints in mid summer.
PENNISETUM alopecuroides 'Hameln'
Striking and effervescent, 'Hameln' boasts lush clumps of arching linear foliage above which bottle-brush spikes of pale silver explode in summer like fireworks before fading to buff in the autumn.
PENSTEMON 'Rich Ruby'
'Rich Ruby' has fabulous ruby red flowers during the summer with contrasting yellow stamens within the burgundy throat. Available for Mail Order from May - August