I am joining Cathy and the intrepid vasers again this Monday sharing a Vase of flowers collected from our gardens. To view more vases follow this link to Cathy’s blog RamblingintheGarden.
My vase features all types of sage grown in my garden. My advice – plant some!
It seems to be a very good spring for sage in my garden. I planted some new plants a few weeks ago and they are thriving to the point I need to cut the flowers. The bees were not happy with me, but I emerged, clippers in hand, from the flowers unscathed. The annual sages seemed to have enjoyed the rare freezing temperature we had in February followed by a lot of rain and popped up all over the garden. They are already producing seed. For some reason, they are mostly red.
The close up:
Sage is, of course, Salvia. This is Salvia with a few wildflower friends, a side of Golden Dewdrop in a mason jar with a dried bromeliad leaf collar. Only in South Florida!
The red spikes are Scarlet Sage (Salvia coccinea). Blue flowers are Mystic Blue’ Salvia. White spikes are ‘White Flame’ Salvia. White daisies are Bidens alba, cream colored spikes are Juba Bush (Iresine diffusa) These are both wildflowers. Chartreuse foliage is Golden Dewdrop (Duranta erecta). I also have River Sage (Salvia misella) in the garden. This is reportedly a dense mat forming native that grows everywhere and out competes weeds. Bahahaha, need I say more. It is not vaseworthy. More Sage Advice.
Thanks to Cathy for hosting. Happy Gardening.
I will sign off with the fact that it is so dry here I am seriously considering going outside for a rain dance, the sky looks so promising!!
The Shrub Queen 
The chartreuse elements offer an interesting flavor to this delightful salvia compendium.
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thanks, Susie
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It took me a minute to remember what Duranta erecta is. I know the name, but I do not know of a cultivar with chartreuse foliage. This is a lot of pretty salvias.
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There are several of the Durantas around here. I do love the salvias.
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Gosh, those colours really do sparkle, Amelia – they are SO bright, and the contrast they have with each other just emphasises this all the more. A great vase, thank you
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Thank you, Cathy.
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I am anxious to see how my salvia seeds do here.
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I hope you’ve got them going.
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I sure wish I could grow this mix in 17 of our garden club containers. They would satisfy the Red white and blue needed for our countries 250th celebration.
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I think you could if you used Roman Red Salvia instead of the coccinea…and Creeping Jenny if you like the charteuse.
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Thank you.
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What a varied vase and you have brought together all the different colours so well. Recently Rosemary in this country has had a change of name to Salvia rosmarinus, so that may be another one you could add in the future vases.
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Oh, that is interesting, though Rosemary does have the same sort of flower and scent..are the botanists thinking things through??
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Patriotic red, white and blue salvia for Patriot’s Day (with a bit of yellow on the side 😉 ). Well done! Not a national holiday, but a big one in the Boston area where ‘the shot that was heard around the world’ was fired. Big reenactments today on the 250th!
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I’ll bet this would go over big in Boston. Actually just a salvia coincidence here!
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You definitely have me dreaming of vastly expanding my Salvia choices! And that bromeliad leaf ring… wonderful! Wishing you some rain for the garden! I could even wish for some here in Arizona, as our temps have been unusually high for the season.
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Thank you, we had some showers and now the wind is drying everything out!
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Great advice, lovely sages and the chartreuse Dewdrop is a real eye catcher. Love the collar as well!
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Thanks, Cathy.
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