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Salvia ‘Anthony Parker’

(1 customer review)

$20.00

Stunning waist high mounds of navy blue in October. Handsome felty leaves grow all summer, The flowers absolutely smoother the plant — and best of all they keep right on until hard frost.  All sort of pollinators love it!

For us (Zone 8) they flowered into mid-December last year.  This classic was selected and named by talented garden designer Francis Parker.  It’s rarely seen in the trade but is a local favorite. Like other tender perennials, it’s best planted in the summer!     We ship TWO 4″ pots per order.   

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Description

Easy to grow but difficult to wait on those spectacular azure flowers to unfurl in November!

From our friend and mentor, Francis Parker, this is probably a hybrid of S. leucantha and elegans.  (which explains its late flowers).

All summer, handsome gray leaves, and stems grow into an open mound. This is the perfect plant for creating a sequence of summer flowers.  For example, interplanted with super tall daylilies like Autumn Minaret,  the daylily flowers will emerge in July, through the Salvia foliage.  As they fade over the next month or so, the salvia continues to grow, then flowers in fall.

Anthony Parker likes full sun to part shade. It will reach out and over other plants, spilling over a border. We really love our planting near a low brick wall that helps hold it up when it’s heavy with flowers.

Bees and insects love its late flowers too — those tall blue wands bounce and wave as insects come for late fall feedings.

Like many salvias, this one can be short-lived, especially in super-rich, composted soils. Our current plants are 3 years old and will probably be with us for a few more years. But just in case, I always root a few in water or sand to have a babe on standby.

We ship healthy, well rooted, 4′ pots ready to be planted as the soil warms up.  We’ll ship in March.

 

Additional information

Weight 1 lbs
Dimensions 18 × 5 × 6 in

1 review for Salvia ‘Anthony Parker’

  1. Blake Wilbanks (verified owner)

    I bought 4 plants. I got them all in the ground about 2 weeks ago and they’ve already doubled in size. I took Jenks’ advice and took some cuttings, which are doing well in sand.

    • Jenks Farmer

      Howdy Blake, It’s a tough time of year to be outside but with care, things planted now grow like crazy.

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