Salvia koyamae Bob McCartney The fruit is a fraction

The fruit is a fraction the size of a supermarket strawberry and many times the flavor

often flushed pink in cool weather

adding a second season of color

and increased only by dividing the short creeping rhizome

Come late winter and early spring

Salvia koyamae Bob McCartney The fruit is a fractionHere is a salvia that wants what salvias are not supposed to want. Most of the genus comes from sunbaked Mediterranean hillsides, dry Mexican mountains, and dusty California chaparral, so that the very word Salvia is shorthand for full sun, gravelly soil, and a watering regime closer to neglect than care. Salvia koyamae, endemic to the cool wooded slopes of Honshu in Japan, breaks every rule, asking instead for shade, moist humus rich woodland duff,