An unusual new herbaceous plant, related to salvias, from Chile, with beautifully fragrant foliage. The deep carmine red flowers appear very late in the year, from July into late autumn. (Click for more details)

A lovely plant discovered on the Alpine Garden Society M.E.S.E. 1999 Expedition. Whorls of violet bracts and flowers on branching stems which carry fragrant leaves. (Click for more details)

"Bee Sage" A perfect plant for a hot garden bearing strongly aromatic, leathery, grey-leaved rosettes which produce stems of pale lavender flowers. Tea made from the leaves has many beneficial properties. (Click for more details)

This easy, long lived and popular plant carries many divided short spikes of deep purple-blue flowers, with low, sage-like basal leaves. (Click for more details)

Apparently only introduced to cultivation in 2007, this plant bears sprays of small blue and white "snap-dragons" on extended heads of flowers on stems of thick corrugated leaves. (Click for more details)

A wonderful new garden discovery. Strong square stems clad in fragrant silver-bottomed leaves, carry branching sprays of large, lavender, prominent darker-lipped, slightly furry flowers. The occasional plant gives pure white flowers. A distincti... (Click for more details)

Enormous hairy basal leaves form a base for an immense display of white-tongued vivid purple-blue flowers on long, strong branching stems. Spectacular. (Click for more details)

This reliable, robust, fragrant Himalayan plant has strong square stems holding large spreading panicles of purple-splashed, yellow hooded flowers, an unusual colour for salvias. Both the leaves and the flowers have a distinct minty-lavender perfu... (Click for more details)

Another hardy, but tender-looking salvia. Large deep purple and white flowers on stout sticky stems held well above the foliage in spring and summer. "One of the best border salvias." (William Robinson) (Click for more details)

A most attractive form of Salvia sylvestris with branching stems bearing sage-like dark green leaves and dense terminal spikes of royal blue flowers. If dead-headed in summer a repeat performance can be expected. (Click for more details)

A new plant in cultivation, collected high on Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, although it is also native to the east African highlands from Ethiopia to Tanzania, and also across the Red Sea in Yemen. It grows between 6,000 and 13,000 feet elevation in... (Click for more details)

This unusual sage, similar to Salvia sclarea, grows to 2.5 feet tall, with large, long-stemmed basal leaves with a toothed margin that appear to be covered with white wool. The 1 inch pale lilac flowers grow on many inflorescences that rise above ... (Click for more details)

'Royal Purple Autumn Sage' is one of the smaller leaved salvias that are often referred to as "Autumn Sages", blooming from mid summer until frost with thin dividing stems producing an almost endless succession of bright blue flowers, am... (Click for more details)

"Albino Sage". The rarely seen and very lovely pure white flowered form of common sage. It also has paler milky grey foliage and a slightly dwarfer habit than the normal blue flowered form. (Click for more details)

This impressive clump-forming herbaceous perennial produces sprays of fantastic Moroccan-blue hooded flowers on erect stems throughout summer and autumn. Superb both as a border plant and as a cut flower. No seed-grown flower has a better blue! (Click for more details)

A completely hardy, herbaceous dwarf plant from the mountains of South Africa. Dense sprays of delicate pinkish-blue and white flowers attract bees throughout the summer. Leaves intriguingly perfumed with an aromatic mixture of sage and mint. (Click for more details)

An alpine newcomer from the South African mountains. Densely packed sprays of blue and white flowers on numerous short stems carrying wrinkled, menthol scented leaves. Unlike many African salvias this one survives our winters well here, re-sprou... (Click for more details)

This exciting mix of salvia species will give you a variety of forms and colours for your garden. Size and colour of flower will vary from white to blues and reds. Includes salvias listed in this issue and: Salvia argentea, barrelieri, lavandulif... (Click for more details)

Superficially like but much smaller than S. forskaohlei, this attractive salvia produces short spires of violet blue flowers above neat basal clumps of triangular-ovate leaves. When the inflorescences, which are closely packed in dense globular w... (Click for more details)