Salvia guaranitica "Black and Blue" Medicinal and can be used much

and can be used much as the common dogwood

The suckering habit suits a naturalistic planting among ferns

and means exactly that

few native perennials give so much for so little fuss

where the shrub grows as a shady understory plant along forest edges

Salvia guaranitica "Black and Blue" Medicinal and can be used muchSalvia guaranitica 'Black and Blue' is a big, vigorous perennial sage grown for one of the truest blues in the garden, a deep gentian to cobalt held in near black calyces that give the selection its name. Through the warm months, tall spikes rise above soft, hairy, deep green leaves and open in a long, generous run, and few hardy perennials offer a blue this saturated for so long a season. The species is a South American plant, native to Brazil,