Salvia
Salvia spp.
Special Features
Typically have opposite leaves and square-shaped stems. Flowers borne on spikes or racemes in shades of blue, purple, red, pink, white, and bi-colors. Tubular flowers attract pollinators like bees and butterflies.
Plant Specifications
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Growing Salvia on Martha's Vineyard
Salvia nemorosa and its cultivars are among the most reliable and long-blooming perennials for Martha's Vineyard's sunny, well-drained garden borders, producing dense spikes of violet-blue, purple, or pink flowers from May through July and again from late summer through fall with proper deadheading. They thrive in the lean, sandy, well-drained soils characteristic of island growing conditions and are notably tolerant of the coastal wind exposure, intermittent drought, and salt air influence that challenge less adapted perennials in oceanfront and near-coastal garden settings.
Aromatic foliage provides reliable deer resistance throughout the island, a consistent advantage in both enclosed and open garden situations. Estate Care professionals deadhead salvia spikes promptly after each flush to encourage rapid reblooming, cut plants back by one-third after the primary June bloom for a clean second flush in late summer, and treat it as a foundational structural plant in the professional perennial border program.
