Re: plant ID

Photos can often show blue flowers as pinkish-purplish.  Go to Berkeley Hort
and smell the leaves and ask what the flower color.  There is a hybrid,
"Allen Chickering", which is a larger shrub, leaves not so small and narrow,
they don't smell quite as good, flowers are lighter in color and maybe not
so blue.  It is easier to grow if you don't have good drainage.  Cathy

> From: barbara sargent <rsgt@california.com>
> Reply-To: rsgt@california.com
> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:08:16 -0700
> To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Re: plant ID
> 
>> A salvia with very fragrant gray/green leaves. Leaves are very narrow.
>> Purple flowers are born around a center that dries before the petals drop
>> off.
>> 
>> I've seen this in several parking strips and elsewhere in Berkeley. Wish I
>> could do better with the description.
>> 
>> Does anyone have ideas? I've done a google search without much luck. This
>> may be a
> 
> 
> I looked at the Las Pilatas Nursery site and the plant looks most like the
> clevelandia but the flowers are purple rather than blue. Perhaps it's a
> hybrid? Anyway, I love the fragrance and will try to find one at Berkeley
> Hort or somewhere else close to home.
> 
> Thanks for all responses,
> 
> Barbara
>
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