Aromafolia - Pictures

Salvia amplexicaulis
Whorls of violet-blue flowers along stems. Fragrant foliage. 60-80cm
Salvia argentea
Rosettes of silvery grey leaves densely covered with soft glistening silver white hairs. spikes of soft pink flowers.
Salvia arizonica
Sprawling habit so good in large tubs or for ground cover. Masses sprays of sky blue flowers. 30-60cm
Salvia aurea 'Kirstenbosch'
Tender variety with pale grey fleshy foliage. Very vigorous with very unusual large brown flowers, like a hooked parrots beak. Lift and overwinter indoors or grow in pots. A very eye-catching plant. 90cm+
Salvia blepharophylla
Ornamental salvia with glossy rich green leaves and brilliant almost luminescent traffic light red flowers. The name means “leaves fringed like eyelashes”. Look closely and you can see why. Needs winter protection.
Salvia chamaedryoides var. isochroma
Small bushy shrub with many tiny grey leaves with sprays of deep blue flowers. 30-40cm
Salvia chamaedryoides x microphylla
Vigorous shrubby salvia with small aromatic rugose leaves and purple blue flowers. 30-50cm
Salvia 'Christine Yeo'
Similar to the above but more vigorous.
Salvia clevelandii 'Winifred Gilman'
Intense violet blue flowers on small woody plant. Needs very well-drained site in a very sheltered spot. Very limited stock in 2008.
Salvia coahuilensis
Low growing shrubby salvia with blue-purple flowers all summer long. Narrow olive green leaves. Prefers a well-drained sunny spot. 60cm
Salvia confertiflora
Tall, late flowering tender perennial. Deeply veined dark green leaves with tall velvety brown flowering spikes with densely packed small orange-red flowers. 1.5m
Salvia desoleana
Wide light green hairy leaves with crinled, makingtight clump to 18". Pale cream and light blue flowers in spring. Wonderfully pungent leaf aroma according to some, a bit to powerful according to others! Very limited stock for 2007.
Salvia dolichantha
Clump forming plant with large deep green leaves, silver underneath. The large lavender pink flowers are slightly furry are held in branching sprays 2-3 feet tall.
Salvia dombeyi
Extraordinary flowers. Vermillion red and each up to four inched long held suspended from dark violet bracts. Tender species. 50-100cm
Salvia dorisiana
Foliage intoxicatingly scented of tropical fruits. The leaves are large and hairy. Not hardy so best grown in pots and treated like a scented leaf pelargonium. Magenta flowers in late winter early spring. Can reach 70-90cm
Salvia forreri
Low-growing herbaceous perennial. Gently spreading habit. Plentiful blue flowers with white markings. Works well in a container or a hanging basket or in a sunny well-drained spot as a ground-covering plant.
Salvia forsskaolii
Very hairy basal leaves. Eye-catching bright purple blue flowers with white tongues. Forms a substantial clump. 80-100cm
Salvia fruticosa
Early blooming salvia, evergreen. Known as ‘Greek sage’ and can been seen depicted in the frescoes at Knossos on the island of Crete. Bushy habit, drought tolerant. Pinkish lavender flowers. Truly spectacular when in flower. 60-90cm
Salvia greggii
All the salvia greggiis form compact shrubs with a long flowering season. All do best in a well-drained soil in a reasonably sheltered spot.
Salvia greggii CD&R 1148
Soft orange-red flowers with purple tipped calyces.
Salvia greggii 'Dark Dancer'
Very showy deep rich purple flowers.
Salvia greggii 'Navajo Cream'
Soft cream flowers.
Salvia greggii 'Navajo Dark Purple'
Rich dark purple flowers.
Salvia greggii ‘Sungold’
Soft pale yellow flowers.
Salvia hians
Deep pea-green leaves with tall branching flowering stems of dusky violet flowers with darker purple brown calyces. 1m
Salvia 'Indigo Spires'
Similar to but distinct from salvia guaranitica. Very long flowering spikes of the deepest blue. Only borderline hardy so best give it winter protection or take cuttings as insurance. Very long flowering season. 1-1.5m
Salvia involucrata 'Mulberry Jam'
Upright habit. Very rich magenta flowers. Not reliably harder outside the mildest areas. 1.2m
Salvia juriscii
Small bushy plant for the front of the border or in the rockery. Grey-green hairy and ferny foliage with small spikes of pink and violet flowers. Very pretty. 20-30cm
Salvia lanceolata
Thick textured dove grey lanceolate leaves on a small shrub up to 1m. Very large and unusual flowers of a rusty rosy brown colour. Not really hardy so take cuttings or lift and overwinter under cover. 60cm
Salvia lavandulifolia
Makes a compact bush of narrow grey leaves, with abundant rich purplish-blue flowers held upright well above the foliage in dense spikes in midsummer. 75 cm.
Salvia lyrata 'Purple Knockout'
Forms a low mat of deep purple veined leaves. Short spikes of pale violet flowers One of the best small foliage plants. 20-30cm
Salvia microphylla
Very vigorous. Starts flowering as early as April and carries on, if mild, until Christmas. Bright red flowers and fresh green foliage. Can be pruned to shape but will easily exceed 100cm.
Salvia microphylla 'Belize'
Superb relatively new introduction. Vigorous shrubby salvia with mid green foliage with distinctive deep red stems and bright scarlet flowers. 30-50cm
Salvia microphylla ‘Pink Blush’
Soft pink flowers, upright habit. 60cm
Salvia microphylla 'San Carlos Festival'
Unusual foliage for a microphylla – grey green heart shaped leaves forming a densely branched shrub with cerise flowers.30-50cm
Salvia microphylla 'Trebah'
Lilac white flowers. 50cm
Salvia microphylla 'Trelissick'
Creamy yellow flowers tinged with peach. 50cm
Salvia microphylla 'Trewithin'
Strong cerise flowers. 50cm
Salvia microphylla 'Wild Watermelon'
Almost shocking pink flowers. Very striking. 30-50cm
Salvia namaensis
Very unusual spidery foliage. Strongly aromatic. Pale blue flowers. 60cm
Salvia 'Nazareth'
Sweet sage scented silver grey hairy foliage.
Salvia nemorosa 'Lubeca'
A clump forming perennial. Erect flower stems of deep purple-blue from June-August. 80cm
Salvia nemorosa 'Ostfriesland'
Excellent hardy Salvia with spikes of violet blue flowers in crimson purple bracts from June to September. Well drained soil. Sunny position. 60cm
Salvia nemorosa 'Plumosa'
An unusual cultivar of S. nemorosa, which is quite distinct from other cultivars. This has large, wide spikes of tiny flowers held in pink/purple bracts.
Salvia nemorosa 'Rosenwein'
Bushy green foliage produces many spikes of red stalks from which pink flowers emerge between June and August. 40-50cm
Salvia nemorosa 'Schneehugel'
Beautiful spikes of soft white accented by fragrant, gray- green foliage. Compact habit. 50cm
Salvia nemorosa subsp tesquicola
Heavily rugose, dark green foliage forming a large rosette. Tall spikes of large deep blue flowers. Very striking. 50cm+
Salvia nipponica 'Fuji Snow'
Beautifully white-green variegated foliage. Spreading habit. Pale yellow flowers. 30cm
Salvia officinalis ‘Grandiflora’
Large, wrinkled leaves with numerous spikes of lilac flowers through summer. 60-90cm
Salvia patens
Very floriferous. Huge gentian blue flowers, best given a protective mulch in winter as not completely hardy. Very eye-catching. 60cm+
Salvia patens 'Cambridge Blue'
As above but with pale blue flowers.
Salvia Patens ‘Chilcombe’
Another patens but this time with lilac mauve flowers.
Salvia patens 'Guanajuato'
Taller stems and darker foliage than the species but with the same enormous and extraordinary blue flowers. Truly spectacular. 60cm+
Salvia pratensis 'Lapis Lazuli'
Dark green oval leaves, forming a basal rosette from which rises a striking spire of large pink flowers. Very hardy.
Salvia pratensis 'Rose Rhapsody'
Dark green oval leaves, forming a basal rosette from which rises a striking spire of large pink flowers. Attractive to butterflies and bees. Very hardy. 50cm
Salvia pratensis 'Swan Lake'
Bright green pointed oval leaves, forming a basal rosette from which rises a striking spire of large white flowers. Attractive to butterflies and bees. Very hardy. 50cm
Salvia pratensis 'Sweet Esmeralda'
Similar to the above but with intense dark pink flowers. 50cm
Salvia pratensis 'Twilight Serenade'
Another of the pratensis varieties, this time with deep violet blue flowers. 50cm
Salvia ringens
Forms a basal clump of pinnately divided leaves from which arise stiffly erect, glaucous-green stems of up to a metre in height. Whorls of bluish flowers from June to September. Enjoys a sunny spot on well-drained soil.
Salvia 'Silke's Dream'
Tall shrubby salvia with orange red flowers in large spikes. 60-90cm
Salvia stenophylla
Numerous slim bright green flowering stems rise from ground level, covered all the way up in dainty mauve-blue blooms. Tiny lance shaped leaves. 30-38cm
Salvia stepposa
Rarely seen herbaceous salvia. Sharply pointed gray green leaves from which are thrown up spikes of voilet blue flowers. One for the collector, but easy to grow in a well-drained site.
Salvia superba 'Rose Queen'
Terrific value plant with many upright mulberry rose flowers with darker calyces. 30-45cm
Salvia turkestanica alba
Overwinters as a woolly leaved silver rosette from which rise up strong stems over 3 feet tall. White flowers held in lime green bracts. The whole plant is deeply aromatic although the odour has been described as reminiscent of the neighbourhood tomcat! Nevertheless a very striking plant.
Salvia uliginosa
Commonly called 'Bog Sage', but the name does not reflect such a striking and elegant plant. Late summer flowering, it throws up from underground tubers the most most beautiful spikes of sky blue floweres which waft gently in the breeze. Carries on flowering incredibly late, usually well into November. 1-1.5m
Salvia verticillata 'Alba'
Compact stems have whorls of white flowers all summer and autumn. 30-50cm
Salvia viscosa
Delightful rosette forming perennial with tall slightly sticky spikes of tiny rich purple flowers streaked with pink. Works well at the front of a border as a “transparent” plant. 60-90cm
Salvia x jamensis
These tend to be smaller than s.microphylla but like all shrubby salvias prefer a well-drained spot. Most of these are proving fairly hardy, however. Unless stated otherwise, these are propagated from plants which have survived a few winters outside in my garden.
Salvia x jamensis 'Cherry Queen'
Shiny mid green leaves with strong red flowers.
Salvia x jamensis 'James Compton'
Deep magenta flowers. Hardiness not yet tested.
Salvia x jamensis 'Los Lirios'
Dusty pink flowers.
Salvia x jamensis 'Maraschino'
Vermillion flowers. 40-70cm
Salvia x jamensis 'Raspberry Royale'
Deliciously fragrant foliage and luminous burgundy flowers. 40-70cm
Salvia x jamensis 'La Luna’
Pale cream flowers.
Salvia x jamensis 'La Siesta'
Cream flowers tinged with pink and peach.
Salvia x jamensis ‘Moonlight Over Ashwood’
Very unusual variegated salvia. Golden green leaves often with a dark green centre. Flowers are a creamy white. Hardiness not yet tested.
Salvia x jamensis 'Moonlight Serenade'
Very glossy dark green leaves with palest cream flowers with contrasting dark bracts. Like most x jamesis salvias is very free flowering.
Salvia x jamensis 'Pat Vlasto’
Peachy pink flowers.
Salvia x jamensis 'Sierra San Antonio'
Flowers are a fruit salad (if any of you recall the chewy sweets from childhood!) combination of pinks and creams swirled together on the same flower.