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Re: Salvia 'Waverly' ?

At 09:34 PM 7/1/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I picked up this lovely thing today but can't find in any of my references
>what species it is a variety of, or what its parentage may be if a hybrid.
>Anyone have a clue? It has a white tinged pink-lavender flower and dark green
>rather glossy leaves. 
>
>Deborah Lindsay
>Oakland, California

Deborah:

Here is the entry from my Salvia placard book on your sage:

Santa Barbara Bush Sage	
			 `San Marcos Lavender Sage'
Salvia leucantha aff. (Lamiaceae)
Height:	To 4' in sun.
Width:	To 3', benefits from staking.
Flower Color/Bloom Period:	White, with purple markings, larger than the
species.  The calyx and stem are rosy-lavender and relatively smooth; summer
to first frost.
Soil Conditions:	Good garden soil.
Fertilization:	Light applications or Osmocote™.
Exposure:	Full sun best, will grow well in half sun.
Hardiness:	Possibly half-hardy in zone 7; mature plants will survive harsh
winters if mulched.
Herbal/Medicinal Uses:	Weakly aromatic; a good bee plant.
Other Uses:	Mostly ornamental, a showy summer and fall bloomer.  It should
be investigated as a cut or dried flower.
Provenance:	Mexico: southern mountains (parent species).  Unknown
Californian hybrid or sport.  The varietal name `Wavely' is also being used
for this plant. 

I've been able to trace this plant to either Mark Bartholemew of Hi Mark
Nursery in Santa Barbara, CA or Steve Brigham of Buena Creek Gardens in San
Marcos, CA, who may have gotten it from Mark.  Mark has traced it back to
the Bay area.  I'd like to know myself if Waverly is from the estate of the
same name in England, or should that cultivar name apply to a form of Salvia
clevelandii, as someone else mentioned to me.  The exact provenance of this
plant is of great interest to both Betsy Clebsch and myself.

I'm pretty sure that it is either a sport or hybrid of Salvia leucantha, or
a related species collected in Mexico.  I've seen a hybrid of leucantha with
S. elegans, and that hybrid doesn't even look close at first inspection to
either parent.

Rich Dufresne
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