Beautiful soft, gray-green foliage is a wonderful complement to the bright blooms. Makes a stunning addition to a rock garden or mixed shrub border. A must-have for sunny Mediterranean-style gardens. Evergreen. WATER: Allow soil to dry between waterings. SIZE: Fast growing; reaches 3 ft. tall and wide. This plant may be available in these stores:

Salvia leucantha 'Santa Barbara' (Santa Barbara Sage) - A quick growing shrub that can reach 2-3 feet tall by 4-6 feet wide as it spreads outward at the base from its spreading rootstock. It has young upright stems covered with woolly white hairs and narrow 3- to 4-inch-long leaves that are gray green above and whitish from dense short hairs below.

Noted for its compact and strong branching habit, Salvia leucantha 'Santa Barbara' (Mexican Bush Sage) is a shrubby perennial boasting long-lasting wands of velvety purple flowers adorned with a hint of lavender-rose.

With compact growth to only 2 ½ feet tall by 4 feet wide, Salvia leucantha 'Santa Barbara' is a vast improvement over the rangy growth typical of other Mexican sage cultivars. The rose-lavender colored flowers and purple calyces contrast nicely against the white stems of the inflorescence.

2018年3月18日 · Salvia leucantha 'Santa Barbara' is a compact, drought-resistant Mexican Sage with deep purple flowers. Buy it at FBTS online plant nursery.

3 天之前 · Salvia leucantha Santa Barbara - Tender perennial with large spikes of purple flowers and tomentose gray-green leaves.

It is native to tropical and subtropical pine forests in central and eastern Mexico. This cultivar of 'Santa Barbara' was found in a garden in the Californian city and it is more compact growing than the mother species. The foliage is evergreen in warmer climates. I …

2021年4月25日 · Salvia leucantha Santa Barbara is a new take on an old standard for the drought tolerant garden. The Santa Barbara Mexican Sage is intermediate in flower color between the white and purple and the purple Midnight cultivars but about half the size.

‘Santa Barbara’ is a smaller, more compact selection of Mexican Bush Sage known for its showy spikes of two-toned white and purple flowers that first emerge in spring and rebloom continuously through fall.

2006年9月23日 · The best selection of this compact plant, botanically speaking, is named ‘Santa Barbara,’ Salvia leucantha. It normally grows into a well-mounded mass of spiked flowers reaching up to three feet in height and spreads into a four-foot mass clump.