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Salvia uliginosa

>From: gklok@hba.trumpet.com.au (Gay Klok)
>Subject: Re: Hey...out there!!!
>Sender: gklok@postoffice.trumpet.com.au (Unverified)
>Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:04:41 -0800 (PST)
>
>  <snip>      The swamp salvia [uliginosa] shows
> its sky blue flowers but I do wish it wasn't
> so invasive, tall and untidy.   Not many
> flowers have that clear blue colour.

Gay -

I find this a very interesting plant.  Locally, it will take either
very wet or very dry soils - it is especially useful for those spots
on clay which are stagnant pools in winter, baking to brick in the
summer.  This Salvia seems unphased.  Just this last weekend, I cut
my untidy winter stems down to the ground, sacrificing new shoots
which were bursting out all over, but I know there will be better,
stronger stems after this drastic treatment.  I enjoy the delicate
wand-like spikes of clear blue, white marked flowers as well.  A
rare treat.  It does move about a bit, but in my garden it is
allowed to find its way among Helichrysum petiolare 'Variegatum',
whose pale, creamy yellow edged and marbled wooly leaves are a nice
compliment.  I find it is also well placed with some of out local
Juncus species, which can also take the wet/dry treatment, and their
large clumps of green, grey or blue-grey rush-like foliage are a
great contrast.

 Sean A. O'Hara                     sean.ohara@ucop.edu
 710 Jean Street                    http://www.dla.ucop.edu/sao
 Oakland, California  94610-1459    h o r t u l u s   a p t u s
 (510) 987-0577                     'a garden suited to its purpose'
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