Salvia farinacea Seascape Mixed Seeds - Mealy Cup Sage

This mix of mealy cup sage, called Salvia farinacea Seascape Mixed, combines three fantastic varieties into one harmonious blend of shades of ultramarine blue, pure white and lavender blue spotted with white. Two of these varieties display flowers that evolve from silvery buds. These sage are perennial in their native habitat but are grown as annuals in most of our climates. These branched, bushy plants are also early flowering and bloom abundantly. This selection will bring a lot of elegance and poetry to borders and flowerbeds. They are also make for very beautiful cut flowers.

Salvia farinacea is a perennial plant native to Texas and Mexico, from the family Lamiaceae. Its tenderness and rapid growth make it an excellent annual in most of our climates. The 'Seascape Mixed' mix brings together three varieties whose flowers combine into a harmonious blend of blue, white and silver. The plants have a compact, bushy growth habit, developing mounds reaching 40 cm in height and width. They present bouquets of stems covered with greyish-green foliage made up of aromatic, lanceolate, slightly serrated leaves with white, downy undersides. From June to October, highly ornamental, dark purple, blue and white or pure white stems appear, bearing upright, flexible spikes, covered with small white hairs. They carry flowers with petals coloured ultramarine blue, bicoloured white and blue or pure white. White, silver-powdered buds bloom into lavender and white flowers. Mealy Cup Sage gets its name from the light glaucous coating covering its stems. 

Mealy Cup Sage Seascaped Mixed is perfect as a bedding plant, planted in large drifts or combined with, for example, roses, marigolds or Rudbeckias. It will bring out the romantic beauty of large-flowered peonies.They can also be combined with grasses and gauras or grown amongst the silvery foliage of sagebrushes. This plant also makes for refined borders along pathways, where it can be planted with snow-in-the-summer (Cerastium tomentosum) which will cover its base with a soft, harmonious blend of muted colours. Its spikes recall those of lavender and last long in a vase.