Allen Chickering Sage

Bring beauty and fragrance to your garden with Salvia 'Allen Chickering', a hybrid sage native to California that is easy to grow and the ideal addition to your drought tolerant garden. A member of the mint family, Allen Chickering Sage has sage-scented foliage and bears exquisite whorls of rich lavender-blue flowers that attract hummingbirds, butterflies, and other beneficial insects and blooms over a long period. The perfect plant for a pollinator-friendly garden. Allen Chickering Sage is a hybrid of S. clevelandii and S. leucophylla that was selected for its garden tolerance. This robust, upright, large, evergreen shrub grows 5 ft. tall and wide and bears aromatic, textured, grey-green leaves. Attractive whorls of deep lavender-blue flowers appear as 3 to 5 clusters skewered on 2 ft. long wands from late spring through summer. Salvia 'Allen Chickering' is a tough plant that is perfect in dry gardens or on slopes. If you like the smell of sage then plant this in a location near a wal