Hi monica,

i buy a lot of mine from the web. there are an aweful lot of really good sellers on the internet. two of my favs are:

anniesannuals.com
joycreek.com

oh! and diggingdog.com too

(I'm in northern california)

best of luck!

j.

You go to Robinssalvias and A world of salvia and read all you can about individual species and hybrids and then do a search of the particular species that interests you - you'll find lots of vendors. Once you figure out what you'd like to grow ask advice at places like this. The conversations and questions have helped a lot of us and cut years off our learning curve.

I'm fortunate to live in North Carolina where there are nurseries around that sell salvias.

I have 5 colors of greggii, my favorites. They make wonderful mass plantings and are blooming like crazy right now. I also have 3 mass plantings of black & blue and those are still blooming. I'm not a collector, though. I'm a deer resistant gardener and salvias (with agastaches) are perfect!

I have been experimenting with some californian salvias in Central texas. I did get some that are rated Z 9 and I am in z8bishso we will see. The S. Aromas weren't too hgappy about the hugely wet summer last year followed by the dead dry winter but they lived and seem very happy right now. I also have the salvia repens west texas form and I really want that to work but it seems to be not happy and I can't figure out why. My Regla and chiquitas are blazing away.greggiis are always good here. The hotlips that got the full morning sun and no water and caliche croaked but those on the north side of the oaks is doing fine. We get many people that experiment with salvias down here. I need ones that take dry abuse and poor soil.

wantonamara
I live in Central Texas also,some other salvias to try
are S.farinacea Henry Duelberg or Augusta and try species
not horticultural forms like victoria etc they don't make it.Salvia microphylla "San luis potasi",Cherry Queen. Hotlips being from the pacific side of Mexico has different genetics more suited to garden soil and watering as well as some afternoon shade.If you can find it S.engelmannii, lycioides,ballotaeflora,chamaedryoides grow on rock out crops too. In shade S.roemeriana morning sun S melissodora. The x jamensis (Sierra San Antonio etc..) forms don't like it here unless grown from seed S. greggii"Moonglow" is one exception.A relative to S.regla - S sessei does well here also.With more soil and water than Calache...coccinea,mexicana,madrensis,involucrata,elegans
blepharophylla,azurea,scabra,darcyi guaranitica Hybrids Indigospires,Mystic spires,Purple Magesty etc.. I have
not been able to keep California Salvias alive here but
I have more clay than calache. There may be a few I did not
list,anyway have fun experimenting!