Did that patch spread out from just one plant or did you plant several of them? Love that intense blue color!

Joseph

Joseph, that is a cluster of specimens that are in their second year. Last spring, I planted seven one-gallon 'Marcus' in that area, about 1 foot apart from each other. They've done exactly what I hoped they'd do, looking like a mass of blue this year. A very tidy and mannerly plant.

Randy

Gorgeous!

Brenda

Thanks, Randy, what a great plant for landscaping!

Joseph

I have one little Marcus. I think I need more !

Carol

Randy,

That is beautiful.

I live in San Antonio, which it is very hot and dry.

Is it drought tolerant? The salvias that I've had the luck with have been the Greggis.

Lowe's had a bunch of nemorosa on sale and the label said, "Moist soil".

Thanks, Brenda & Joseph.

Carol, yes you do! They really excel in the second year.

Pricklypearsatx, I also grow salvia greggi. But I have to plant greggi in raised beds, with perfectly amended soil, and perfect drainage, due to our clay soil, which greggi hates. When planted that way, I can just about ignore my greggi, and it will remain beautiful all season. In my garden, salvia nemerosa seems much less demanding about where I plant them, as long as the soil is reasonably well prepared. My nemorosa's do require a little more water than my greggi, but not a lot more. It's too much trouble to have that much space devoted to raised beds with perfect drainage here, which is the reason why I grow only one greggi and twenty nemerosa's (including my 'East Friesland' nemerosa's). But I wouldn't give up that one greggi for anything! I have no doubt that greggi is better adapted for San Antonio than nemerosa would be. I've seen greggi's growing beautifully there by people who don't have to go to near the trouble that I have to go through here.

Randy

Yep Randy,

Greggi's grow pretty effortlessly around here. They're everywhere...Gas Stations, etc.

Thanks for the info about nemorosa. I already had some East Friesland and didn't quite know where to plant it. So, I tucked it under the shade of some of my rosebushes.