Re: Salvia Indigo Spires and ARGENTINE SKIES

At , you wrote:
>At 08:13 AM 9/28/1999 +0930, you wrote:
>>I am inspired to try INDIGO SPIRES after reading so  many enthusiastic
comments about it. I've given up on  the Bog Sage (Salvia uliginosa). It's
too, too floppy and  runs too far too fast. Nice colour but (as
Queenslander's  would say). But I have great success with Salvia
guaranitica and love both its deep cobalt blue colour,  very long flowering
season and upright habit - to 6 feet +.  Now I have a form called ARGENTINE
SKIES.  Comments please as mine is but a babe. I have it near  Yucca
arkansana - about which I also know absolutely  nothing. Two unknowns thrown
together by a wishful  gardener - could be mighty, or a mighty mess. What
think you?
>>
>>trevor n.

Barbara, Trevor, et al:

Argentine Skies is a form of S. guaranitica that may be hardier than the
common form.  It has light blue flowers that have subtle gray cast to them,
suggesting clear Antarctic air.  It doesn't produce as many flowers, and is
the most robust of the few Salvias that has survived in my neglected field
garden for four years in North Carolina.  The variety Black and Blue seems
to have a similar durability and habit; this one has very dark calyxes and
darker than usual deep blue flowers.

There is a some Salvia azurea grandiflora, regular S. guaranitica, and a
little bit of S. uliginosa amongst the weedy comps, Johnson grass, and pigweed.

I deefinitely use tomato rings to support tall tropical Salvias like S.
mexicana, S. madrensis, and S. gesneraeflora.  Many of these sages will
suffer wind damage if not propped.  The axillary growth resulting from
pruning produces weak joints that can shear off easily if physically challenged.



Richard F. Dufresne
313 Spur Road
Greensboro, NC  27406
336-674-3105
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