New for 2018!! Salvia Heatwave ‘Breeze’ produces mass displays of large fragrant flowers, violet-purple with slight pastel throat, accented on a dark calyx. The foliage is a lovely emerald green. This aromatic evergreen compact Salvia shrub is so easy to grow, very long bloom period, and very tolerant of dry hot conditions.
Breeze is a unique color to join as one of eight vibrant non-fading colors to choose from in the Salvia Heatwave Collection.
The Heatwave Salvia’s are a cross of microphylla x greggii, this eliminates the variable range of habits and lack of garden hardiness associated with so many of the straight Salvia greggii forms in the market. The plants are very tight habit in appearance.
Suggested Uses: fast results for new gardens, lengthy color for mixed borders, container displays, coastal zones and poolside landscaping. Pretty in cottage or wildflower style gardens. Also nice for a flowering hedge.Ideal for water wise gardening. Xeriscape gardening Deer proof gardening! Ideal for attracting birds and bees to the garden. Ease of care for City and roadside landscape.
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Blooming season: spring, summer and fall
Mature size: H 80 cm x W 80cm
Zone 6-10
Inventor: Howard Bentley and Steve Eggelton of Australia
Care: Full sun to part shade. Will take dry and extreme heat. Bred to meet the Australian climate. Tolerates most soil types that are free draining. Once established requires only minimum watering and a single feed in Spring with a general purpose fertilizer. Sometimes after a main flowering flush in climates in the southern hemisphere, trim the plant by half to encourage further flowering and density.