Salvia farinacea Mystic Spires Blue Improved
Salvia farinacea Mystic Spires Blue Improved
Salvia farinacea Mystic Spires Blue Improved
Mealy cup sage, Mealycup sage
This plant is beautiful, requires very little maintenance, and blooms with large spikes over a foot long. Mine has grown over a meter wide and tall. It was spectacular, and all my visitors would ask me what variety of sage it was. Perhaps I may have over-fertilized it as I applied 15-30-15 every week. It became enormous. I really enjoyed it, and I will buy another one next year.
Simone, 18/09/2022
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Description
The Mystic Spires Blue hybrid sage is an improved variety with a modest stature that blooms continuously from late spring until the first frost. A tender perennial plant, it is grown as an annual in our climates. Adorned with beautiful spikes of intensely blue-violet flowers for months, it is perfect for flower beds, containers, and planters. Plant it in a sunny spot in rich, moist soil. It looks stunning when planted in groups among perennials and complements all its neighbours!
The Mystic Spire Blue sage is derived, among others, from Salvia farinacea, a perennial plant native to Texas and Mexico in the mint family. Its low hardiness and rapid growth make it an excellent annual in most of our climates. This 'Mystic Spires Blue' cultivar has a compact and bushy habit, forming clumps that are 50 cm (20in) tall and 40 cm (16in) wide. This vigorous small sage produces sturdy stems covered with slightly toothed, slightly aromatic dark green leaves. From June to October, dense upright spikes of intensely blue-violet flowers appear at the ends of the stems.
The 'Mystic Spires Blue' sage, perfect in flower pots, will also look beautiful in flower beds when paired, for example, with groundcover or miniature roses, marigolds, a sowing of borage, or dwarf rudbeckias. It can also be combined with grasses, gauras, and shrubby salvias with fuchsia flowers, or emerge from the silver foliage of shrubby wormwoods. This plant also forms lovely borders along pathways, and can be planted alongside silver mound (Cerastium tomentosum) which will carpet its base in a soft harmony of muted tones. Its bushy habit makes it ideal for filling beautiful flower pots, along with pink calibrachoas or bacopas. Its flower spikes hold up well in a vase.
With over 900 species of annuals, perennials, and softwood shrubs distributed worldwide, except in very cold regions and the tropical forest, the Salvia genus is the most diverse in the mint family.
Note: Please be aware that our young plug plants are professional products intended for experienced gardeners. Upon receipt, transplant and store them in a sheltered location (veranda, greenhouse, cold frame...) at a temperature above 14°C (57.2°F) for a few weeks before planting them outdoors once the risk of frost is definitively eliminated.
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Salvia
farinacea
Mystic Spires Blue Improved
Lamiaceae
Mealy cup sage, Mealycup sage
Cultivar or hybrid
Planting and care
You can plant your Mystic Spires Blue salvias in the ground or in a pot. If you want to plant them in the ground, wait until the last heavy frosts have passed (salvias can tolerate a light late frost). In the meantime, you can pre-cultivate them in a pot in a warm and bright place to accelerate their growth. Plant your salvias in a sunny location. They need a rather well-draining, rich soil. They tolerate heat well, but appreciate soils that remain slightly damp to support their flowering. Water regularly but without excess. Very floriferous and fast-growing, they are hungry plants. We recommend feeding them with a liquid fertiliser for containers once or twice a week during the growing season.
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Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a (East Coast and Midlands: Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Portlaoise). It will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the north-west (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal, Westport), delay planting by 1 to 2 weeks in spring and bring it forward by 1 to 2 weeks in autumn compared to the dates given, preferably choosing periods without strong winds.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (Wicklow Mountains, Macgillycuddy’s Reeks, Connemara, Killarney), it is best to plant in spring (April–May) or autumn (September–October), avoiding periods of waterlogged soil in winter and strong winds, which pose the main risk to newly planted trees in these areas.
The flowering period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a, such as the East Coast and Midlands, including Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny and Portlaoise.
This will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the northwest (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal and Westport), it will be delayed by one to two weeks compared to the given dates, due to stronger Atlantic winds and less spring sunshine.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (the Wicklow Mountains, the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, Connemara and Killarney), flowering will be delayed by two to three weeks. Flowering mainly occurs between May and July, with the limiting factors being less frost and more of the excessive humidity, strong winds and lack of sunshine that are characteristic of these areas.
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