PLANT TYPE
Plant 75mm tube



PLANT NAME
Salvia mexicana 'Major'



HEIGHT
200cm



WIDTH
150cm



FLOWER COLOUR/SHAPE
Large blue flowers



FLOWERING TIME
Spring-Summer-Autumn



CONDITIONS
Full sun to part shade, frost tender



SOIL
Tolerant of most soil types




DESCRIPTION
Salvia mexicana 'Major'this is a bushy rounded shrub approx 2.5 -3m x 2m, possibly the largest of the tribe. Leaves are a good mid green, broad cordate shape with a thin texture. Veins are readily visible. Flowers : it has a green flower stem and calyx, quite compact with blue corollas with a hint of mauve. The calyx is crimped at the end before it opens to long tubular flowers.

S. m. major flowers in late Autumn, not as early as ‘Limelight’It is frost tender, needing some protection in the winter with other shrubs or under deciduous trees. Although it likes a sunny position, it does need shelter from hot winds in summer.A good background shrub or filler shrub between trees.


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