Salvia microphylla ‘Wild Watermelon’
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Salvia

Sage

Thought in ancient times to perpetuate good health, an Arab proverb asks, “How shall a man die with sage in his garden?” Our Salvias are diverse perennials, shrubs or subshrubs. Many of them hail from the Mediterranean, Mexico and South America.

Drought tolerant, reliable once established, and generally pest and disease free, they combine an array of flowers and aromatic foliage in many different sizes, shapes, and hues.

Salvia microphylla ‘Wild Watermelon’   

“Exuberant” best describes the way extra large, deep watermelon-pink flowers dress up this robust, relatively cold resistant Salvia.

Collected by Don Mahoney at 7000 ft. on Mexico’s Mt. Cerro Potosi, ‘Wild Watermelon’ not only boasts boisterously colored blooms with white-marked throats but neat good-looking foliage and a hardy crown that spreads by layering itself. Most abundant in spring and fall and only sporadically over the summer, its high-spirited floral hues invite a glance either spotlighted in a favorite pot, or backed by white blooming Cistus in the mixed border. Zone 6/7.

Blooms May–June & again in September–October.

Size: 3'–4' high x 4' wide; hardy to zone 7.

Salvia microphylla ‘Wild Watermelon’ (p-1360)
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• Salvia ‘Bee’s Bliss’
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• Salvia cacaliaefolia
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• Salvia corrugata
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• Salvia ‘Eveline’
• Salvia forsskaolii
• Salvia greggii ‘Lowry’s Peach’
• Salvia greggii ‘Wild Thing’
• Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’
• Salvia guaranitica ‘Blue Ensign’
• Salvia holwayi
• Salvia involucrata ‘Hidalgo’
• Salvia involucrata ‘Mulberry Jam’
• Salvia x jamensis ‘Pat Vlasto’
• Salvia leucantha x elegans ‘Anthony Parker’
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• Salvia ‘Pozo Blue’
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• Salvia pratensis ‘Sweet Esmeralda’
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• Salvia semiatrata
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