Salvia Big Blue Ipheion topped in late spring with

topped in late spring with huge

(Plant Patent 12

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The slowly colonizing woody stalks are clothed during the growing season with light green robinia-like foliage and adorned in April and May (NC)

Salvia Big Blue Ipheion topped in late spring with(aka: Salvia PAS1246577) Salvia 'Big Blue' is a Ball Pan Am Seed introduction of a cross of Salvia longispicata x Salvia farinacea. Although the cross is the same that produced the 1979 introduction, Salvia 'Indigo Spires', this is a dramatic improvement, almost certainly a ploidy (doubled chromosome) shift. For us, it produces a 4' tall x 3' wide, tight clump that includes the dramatic 1' tall floral spikes of dark bluish purple from early June (NC)