Salvia ‘Mexican Blue’

Common Name:
Mexican Blue Salvia

Description:
Salvia ‘Mexican Blue’ is a striking, upright perennial salvia known for its vivid cobalt to deep violet-blue flowers that bloom over an extended season. Believed to be a form or hybrid of Salvia chamaedryoides, this variety brings rich colour and soft texture to garden beds, borders, and containers. Its small, silvery-grey foliage forms a neat, bushy mound, contrasting beautifully with the intense blue flower spikes that appear from late spring through to autumn in Melbourne gardens. Highly attractive to bees and other pollinators, ‘Mexican Blue’ is also heat and drought tolerant once established, making it a great performer in full sun and free-draining soils. With minimal maintenance, it will reward you with months of colour and motion. Light pruning after each flowering flush helps maintain a compact shape and encourages further blooming. It’s especially effective when mass-planted or paired with silver, yellow, or white-toned companions.

Form:

• Shrub - Small

• Shrub - Clumping / Grass-like / Mounding

Mature Size:

• Height: 60–80 cm

• Width: 60–80 cm

Aspect:

• Full Sun

• Part Shade

Flowering:

• Flowers in Spring

• Flowers in Summer

• Flowers in Autumn

Flower Colour:

• Deep blue

• Cobalt blue

• Violet-blue

Key Attributes:

• Suitable for Pots

• Drought Tolerant

• Bee Attracting

• Bird Attracting

• Perennial

• Low Maintenance

• Suitable for Coastal Gardens

• Long Flowering

Toxicity:
Non-toxic to humans and animals

Companion Plants:

• Achillea ‘Moonshine’

• Artemisia ‘Powis Castle’

• Gaura ‘Whirling Butterflies’

• Lavandula dentata

• Coreopsis ‘Golden Sphere’

Plant Growers Australia (PGA) is an innovative wholesale production nursery based in Melbourne, renowned for superior quality garden plants and pioneering breeding programs.
PGA do not sell direct to the public, but their website has detailed information on this species that is available for everyone to access. 
Visit www.pga.com.au for further details and photos of this plant.