Salvia Lavender Dilly Dilly
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notes
Salvia Lavender Dilly Dilly is a hardy perennial sage with lavender blue tipped flowers in racemes on slender, upright purple spikes all summer, soaring above a bushy clump of narrow, rough grey-green aromatic foliage.
Dimensions
- Pot size: 2L
- Height and Spread: 100cm (3ft 3in) x W: 50cm (1ft 7in) in 2-5 years
Features
notes
Salvia Lavender Dilly Dilly is a hardy perennial sage with lavender blue tipped flowers in racemes on slender, upright purple spikes all summer, soaring above a bushy clump of narrow, rough grey-green aromatic foliage.
Insights
The flowers are attractive to butterflies and excellent for cutting. An invaluable plant for the early to mid summer border, this Meadow sage is easy to grow and tolerant of drought and heat.
Details
- Flowers: June - August
- Hardy
Planting
- Well drained soil
- South, East or West aspects
- Full sun or partial sunlight
- Sheltered
Care
- Snip spent flower spikes to prolong flowering
- Don’t cut the Salvia back until late spring to allow the foliage to protect the plant from frost, then cut back to where new shoots are appearing.
Scent
Aromatic foliage
Glossary