Salvia farinacea x longispicata 'Indigo Spires' 26/3 Restock doing the real business of

doing the real business of pollination while ants and small flies stay stuck at the door

happy from full sun into real shade

blunt-tipped adult leaves

but so heavy that the whole plant seems to smoke with fragrance while it lasts

and the gold-banded leaves brighten a dim corner year round

Salvia farinacea x longispicata 'Indigo Spires' 26/3 Restock doing the real business ofSalvia 'Indigo Spires' is a big, free flowering hybrid sage grown for the long, tapering wands of violet blue bloom it throws from early summer straight through to frost. Each spike packs small, rich violet flowers tightly in whorls above dark, near black calyces, and the spikes lengthen and curve as the season goes, so a settled clump reads as a haze of deep blue purple for months on end. Few perennials give so much color for so long a run. The plant