Congrats, and welcome to the SAC (Salvia Addicts Club)! :)

Once I started, I couldn't stop. My mom couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. Then she saw them in bloom...and smelled them...and touched them...in my garden, and life was good.

Now that she's growing them, too, she gushes all the time about how, with such little effort, one can achieve such beauty in a garden. I tried to tell her. :)

Brenda

You will like Snow Hill more and more as time goes by. Mine bloom constantly and I get a few seedlings.
Jim

Brenda, I do feel like this is an addiction. I've always liked salvias, but suddenly I'm obsessed. They do add a certain something to the garden. I can't wait till spring to scour the nurseries for some more. Any favorites you'd recommend ?

I hope my Snow Hill does as well as yours, Jim. It's so pretty now, I just love it. I think I might have Marcus that I planted last spring. I was looking at it today and wondering how I lost the name, but isn't it the purple version of Snow Hill ?

Well, I suppose you could say that. It is also a salvia nemorosa, as is May Night (Mainacht). May Night as a lot different growth habit than Snow Hill. It has larger leaves and blooms, and tends to be more open, for me anyway. I have never grow Marcus, but just bought one in a 1gal container, at Lowe's for a quarter, on their discount table, so we'll see.
Good luck with your salvias. I guess you know, your hooked!?
Jim

Yes, I am definitely hooked. We're expecting 40 mph winds tonite and tomorrow, so I covered each of my new Black and Blue's with a bucket and put a brick on top so they wouldn't get beat to death their first day in the garden.
I'm not as worried about Snow Hill, since they lay down more and don't seem like they'd snap off a branch as easily.

It's always hard for me to pick favorites, but I have some new ones (planted this year) of which I'm quite fond. They had no hesitation in bloom when I planted them (like the S. azurea var. grandiflora & the jamensis 'Moonlight' - new growth on the former, however), and even began producing more blooms.

My new favorites are mexicana 'Limelight', darcyi (slow to get growing, but I love the fragrance!), leucantha, and microphylla 'San Carlos Festival' (the gorgeous color of the flowers explains the name).

Enjoy yourself immensely! :)

Brenda

Thanks, Brenda. I'll keep my eyes open for them when I start shopping again in the spring.

TExas CArol