Salvia farinacea x longispicata 'Indigo Spires' 26/3 Restock doing the real business of

doing the real business of pollination while ants and small flies stay stuck at the door

and lower plants can be set in front to hide the ankles

blunt-tipped adult leaves

happy from full sun into real shade

Gardeners planting inkberry for those berries need at least one male in range

Salvia farinacea x longispicata 'Indigo Spires' 26/3 Restock doing the real business ofSalvia 'Indigo Spires' is a big, free flowering hybrid sage grown for the long, tapering wands of violet blue bloom it throws from early summer straight through to frost. Each spike packs small, rich violet flowers tightly in whorls above dark, near black calyces, and the spikes lengthen and curve as the season goes, so a settled clump reads as a haze of deep blue purple for months on end. Few perennials give so much color for so long a run. The plant