| Description | Blue Hill Sage is a bushy plant with spikes of blue to blue-violet flowers. Is a hardy perennial to zone 5. |
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| Pronunciation | (SAL-vie-a) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | 5 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, draught tolerant once established |
| Soil & Site | needs average to well drained soils, will rot in winter wet soils |
| Flowers | spikes of blue, tubular two-lipped flowers borne in whorls, blooms end of May into early June |
| Leaves | paired simple leaves |
| Stems | stems are four sided |
| Dimensions | 18-24 inches tall, 12-16 inch spread |
| Maintenance | After blooming cut back to a few inches off the ground. They will respond with a new flush of foliage and a lesser but a second bloom. |
| Propagation | seeds, cuttings, division |
| Cultivar Origin | Introduced by Ernst Pagels of Germany. |
| Misc Facts | (syn. Salvia × sylvestris) |
| Author's Notes | We grow this plant at the garden center. It is the truest blue of the Salvias I have seen. |
| Notes & Reference | #04-Herbaceous Perennial Plants (Allan Armitage), #40-Herbaceous Ornamental Plants (Steven Stills), , #87-The New Book of Salvias (Betsy Clebsch), #274-Site Authors' observations and growing experiences |
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