Winnifred Gilman Cleveland Sage

Bring beauty and fragrance to your garden with Salvia clevelandii 'Winnifred Gilman', a California native shrub that is easy to grow and the ideal addition to your drought tolerant garden. ‘Winnifred Gilman’ is a Cleveland Sage selected for its dark violet-blue flowers on thin burgundy stems that attract hummingbirds, butterflies, and other beneficial insects. The perfect plant for the pollinator-friendly garden. A member of the mint family, Winnifred Gilman Cleveland Sage has grey-green foliage with a sweet sage fragrance. The leaves are smaller and less-textured compared to ‘Allen Chickering’ sage. Winnifred Gilman Sage is also a smaller, rounded upright evergreen shrub, growing on average 3 ft. tall and wide. Commonly referred to as Blue Sage, this Cleveland sage blooms in summer for a month with flower clusters of blue-violet on reddish stems. The flowering period is not as long as ‘Allen Chickering’, but the electric blue-violet blooms of ‘Winnifred Gilman’ make up for that with h