Re: plant ID

Barbara,
I would go to Tilden Botanic Garden with a sample. The staff there should know which Salvia it is and you can see mature specimens in the garden instead of canned specimens at a nursery.
Ernie Wasson
Aptos, CA

On Sunday, October 30, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Catherine Ratner wrote:

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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